Index A to Z
Wide
format ink jet printers, links, tips, helpful information for Encad,
Roland, Hewlett-Packard DesignJet, ColorSpan, Ilford, Raster Graphics,
Mutoh, Mimaki piezoelectric, Iris, Glicee fine art large format printers,
EFI Fiery RIP, Postscript RIP servers for wide format printers, ColorSpan,
AHT Advanced Hi-Tech Corp, Colorbus, Splash, software RIP, Yarc, Amiable,
Harlequin, Visual Edge Technology, 3M Cactus, laminating wide-format
prints Seal, GBC, USI, Ledco. Tests, reviews, and recommendations
for wide format printers by Nicholas Hellmuth.
Complete
index of this entire web site starts below.
What
large format printer is best for your business? What wide carriage
printer might be a mistake? What if you have a client waiting for
the output from your wide format printer? What
should you do if you are stuck with a slow and pokey wide format
printer? How to speed up and increase productivity. What PostScript
RIP is best, and which
RIP should you avoid.
Should
I buy an Epson? an Encad? a Hewlett-Packard? Roland? or ColorSpan?
Our
tests require that a printer hold up 90 days without breaking down
and needing substantial technical help! Next step is to see whether
that same printer will hold up an entire year. Thus it is rather obvious
that we do not accept quickie 30-day tests. It's not always easy to
get a demo on loan for long enough to really find out how well it
holds up. Encad and HP, however, both knew their printers would hold
up forever so they provided them without flinching.
So
which printer should you buy, ColorSpan, Hewlett-Packard, Encad, Roland....or
the Epson? We inspected all these printers at the last dozen trade
shows in 2000, 2001, 2003 and now again in 2003.
If
you need help deciding what wide format color printer to buy, what
RIP to select, just send an e-mail to the senior review editor, contact Nicholas Hellmuth. Please be sure to mention what kind of images you
reproduce, what your market is, your level of experience such as whether
you are new to digital printing, and what printers did you consider
before reading the reviews on this site.
CLICK ON ANY LETTER TO SEE THE LIST OF THEMES THAT START WITH THAT LETTER.
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- CAD,
large format printers for architectural drawings, engineering drawings,
GIS, aerial maps, photo
- Canvas
- Canon imagePROGRAF iPF 500
- Canon imagePROGRAF iPF 600
- Canon imagePROGRAF iPF 700
- Canon imagePROGRAF iPF 9000
- Canon imagePROGRAF W8200
- Canon imagePROGRAF iPF8000
- Canon
BubbleJet wide format color printers
- CD-R
burner, Smart and Friendly or any 8x is good choice
- Color copiers
combined with hardware PostScript RIP
- Colorbus
PostScript RIP for wide format printers
(including proofing newspapers on newsprint)
- Color
Corporation of America, where you can
have your signs, posters, banners, or billboards printed for you.
- Color Management
- ColorSpan wide format inkjet printer
- ColorSpan
Esprit, 8 colors and straight-through paper path
- Colorspan
DisplayMaker Mach
XII
- Colorspan
DisplayMaker Mach
12,
- ColorSpan DisplayMaker XII and earlier 8 color models
- ColorSpan FabriJet for printing textiles and other fabrics
- GretagMacbeth EyeOne.
- ColorWings, textile
printer
- Computer
monitors
- Conferences, IMI
- Courses
(see training
courses, seminars)
- Cutters,
as in vinyl
cutters (large format printers that also cut along the outline
of the design to make signs).
- Cutter for Trimming inkjet prints.
- Cymbolic
Sciences Lightjet, Durst Lamda, large
format digital printers.
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- Delta,self-adhesive polyester fabric for wallcovering
- DicoJet,
used with the Mimaki printer with 7 colors as proofer
- Digifab RIP Evolution Software
- Digital Graphics
Magazine
- Digital
Painter, identical same printer as any other Mutoh
- D-gen textile printers
- DTP Link UJET MC3 Express
- DTP Link UJET MC3 Premium
- DTP Link UJET MC2-P
- Drum
scanner reviews
- Durst
Lambda, large
format digital photo printer (see also Cymbolic Sciences LightJet)
- Durst Rho,
a $160,000+ solvent ink printer for thick and rigid materials
- DVD-RAM,
the best new technology for storing your digital images; Panasonic
is good choice, Maxell disks for DVD-RAM
- Dye sublimation
- Dye sublimation inks, InkTec SubliNova
- Dye sublimation, floor tiles, aluminum, coffee mugs
- Dye-sublimation heat transfer printing
- EFI VUTEk printer, dye-sublimation
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- Gandinnovations Jeti 3324 AquaJet
- Gerber
Orion, solvent-based ink printer
- Giclee large format Fine Arts printers,
- Iris (Scitex) wide format printers such as the new GPrint,
- ColorSpan,
- HP
DesignJet 5000ps
- Roland
- GIS,
large format plotters for CAD, aerial maps, and comparable needs.
- Gigabit
Ethernet, as upgrade from 100Base-T Ethernet
- Gradco, Mammoth,
large format (flatbed) inkjet printer
for thick and rigid materials
- Graphtec, SignJetPro,
color inkjet plotter-cutters
- Graphtec vinyl
cutters
- Graphtec SignJet
Pro JX 2150 and JX 2100, much improved cutter/plotters
- Gretag
Imaging
- GretagMacbeth EyeOne
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- hard
drives, Seagate Ultra2 SCSI LVD recommended
- Hewlett-Packard
wide format printers
- HP 430,
450c, 488ca, earlier models for CAD
- HP 750c,
755cm, earlier models for CAD, GIS, and graphic design
- HP
DesignJet 1055CM
- HP
DesignJet 3000 (and chart to show differences among the entire DesignJet series)
- check
out the quality possible from the HP DesignJet 2800CP
- HP 4000
- HP
3500
- HP 500ps for CAD, 800ps for
graphic design; new models with 1200 dpi, and fast
- HP Designjet, list of every model produced in the last almost 20 years.
- HP Designjet 500, 500ps, new updated page.
- HP Designjet 500, 500ps, old page
- HP
DesignJet copier cc800ps, HP DesignJet 815mfp, wide format scan
to print
- HP
DesignJet 5000ps
and 5000 new models, 1200 dpi and fast
- HP
DesignJet 5500
- UV pigmented
inks for the HP 5000 and 5000ps
- Hewlett-Packard
DesignJet 5500 inkjet printer to be shown at GraphExpo
- Hewlett-Packard DesignJet 90, 90r, 90gp
- HP Designjet Z2100 and Hewlett-Packard Designjet Z3100
- HP Designjet Z6100 Photo Printer Series
- HP Designjet L25500 latex ink
- HP Scitex LX600, LX800
- HP latex ink after-market third-party alternatives
- HP Latex printer glossary
- H for HP Designjet L25500 after-market latex ink now available
- Hi
definition monitors reviewd at tradeshows
- Home,
www.wide-format-printers.org
- Hongsam,
Hongsam Pigment Ink for Textile Printing
- Hongsam,
Hongsam Reactive Dye for Textile Printing onto Cotton and other fabrics
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- LAC,
DaVinchi, Art Robo, unusual (and very low -dpi) inkjet printers
from Japan
- laminating
equipment for wide format prints
- USI laminating equipment and supplies
- Latex Ink, HP
- Latex ink printers, HP Scitex LX600 and LX800
- Latex inks, HP printing technologies
- Latex ink, HP Designjet L25500
- Latex ink, Mimaki JV400-130LX and Mimaki JV400-160LX
- Lazer
Images, Gigantagram,
banner printer with spot colors (not an inkjet, can't do photographs)
- Leggett & Platt Virtu UV-printer
- legal disclaimers
- LED
photo printers and sophisticated wide format digital printers using
comparable technology for continuous tone photos
- lenticular form of wide format prints
- Listado en español de impresoras inkjet de formato ancho.
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- Panorama photography
with large format digital system
- Parrot: Epson
7600, 9600
- Paper
and Inkjet Media
- piezo-electric
printheads (Epson, Mutoh, Mimaki, Roland) vs thermal printheads
(ColorSpan, HP, Encad)
- pigmented
archival UV inks
- American
Inkjet Pinnacle Gold
- DicoJet
Inks
- HP
pigmented UV inks
- Lyson
(Lysonic) inks
- VanSon
inks
- plotters,
color plotters for CAD (Computer Aided Design, large format color plotters)
- Decal self-adhesive polyester fabric for wallcovering
- Postscript
RIP, hardware (EFI, ColorSpan, AHT)
- Postscript
RIP, software (Amiable, Harlequin, YARC)
- Previous news releases
- Printing,
where you can have your signs, posters, banners, or billboards printed
- Proofing, using
inkjet printers as proofers
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- SAM Ink, HP 5500
- Sam Ink, after-market latex ink for HP Designjet L25500
- scan
to print (using a flatbed scanner to print
directly to a wide format printer without any computer)
- ScanvecAmiable
- screenprinting, screenprinting
masters from inkjet printers
- Schneider
lenses for medium
format (Rolleiflex) and large
format
- Scitex
flatbed scanners, EverSmart Pro II
- Seagate
hard drives, Ultra2
LVD are best for now
- Seiko Color Textiler 64DS launched, oil-based dye sublimation
- Seiko
Instruments pigmented
ink printer, oil-based inks
- Seiko Teriostar
- seminars (see training
programs)
- signs
(inkjet printers for printing
signs, POP, etc)
- sign
layout software
- FlexiSign
- layout
software that photographers use (Adobe,
QuarkXpress, etc).
- sign
layout software from CADlink
- Signalize
(from Aurelon, formerly Dunaway)
- Sepiax resin ink glossary
- SignJetPro,
vinyl cutter plotter combined with color inkjet printer from Graphtec
- greatly
improved models of Graphtec SignJet Pro 2000 series, with HP printheads,
combo cutter/plotter
- Sign
Warehouse
- Sinar
Bron 4x5 inch large format cameras; if you want a great wide
format print it helps to start with a good camera
- Software
- Solvent
ink printers (and printers using oil-based inks) for outdoor use
without lamination
- Spectrum,
an unusual upright large format printer from Alpha Merics
- stained glass effect,Backlit
- StampaJet Textile Printer
- Stork,
an international company specializing in commercial printers for
textile production with inkjets
- sublimation
(dye
sublimation heat transfer) with large format inkjet printers.
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- Textiles,
indigenous Maya
textile from Guatemala, wide format inkjet print.
- Textile printing with inkjet printers: silk, cotton, polyester
- Textile Printers
- Textile
printers, inkjet printing on fabrics and/or dye sublimation heat
transfer to textiles
- Textiles, review of book of Digital Printing of Textiles.
- Thermal
transfer printers such as the Matan Sprinter, one of the smaller
Roland printers, and others.
- Tips
on how to avoid problems with your wide format printer
- Toner, Oce ColorWave 600
- Training
programs, seminars; training
for digital imaging
- Transfer printing with Wide-format inkjet printers
- Trimmers (paper cutters, for trimming wide format prints)
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FLAAR,
Digital Imaging Technology Center, reviews
by Nicholas Hellmuth
Most recently updated November 2011.
Previous updates: May 21, May 15, 2003, Sep. 10, 2002, March 1, 2002.
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