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
- 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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- DicoJet,
used with the Mimaki printer with 7 colors as proofer
- 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, floor tiles, aluminum, coffee mugs
- Dye-sublimation heat transfer printing
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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 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
- Hi
definition monitors reviewd at tradeshows
- Home,
www.wide-format-printers.org
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- IBM hi definition monitor
- ICG drum
scanners, if you really need a good quality scan for your large
format printer
- Ilford Imaging, wide format inkjet
printers
- Inks
- Inks, Latex (HP printing technologies).
- inks,
pigmented and dye based; inks for wide format inkjet printers (Van
Son now makes inks for wide format)
- iProof,
now updated for large format printers
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- Jacquard,
a leading company specializing in wide format inkjet printing on
fabrics
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- Manfrotto tripod head
- Maya
sculpture, Scorpion
Constellation Deity (full view),
close-up of Moon
Goddess with Rabbit Compaion
- Maya
jade, printed on ColorSpan HiRes 8 color
printer
- Maya vase
rollouts printed on large format printer
- Media,
Canvas
- media
for wide format (photo paper in rolls for wide format ink jet
printers)
- complete
list of every kind of media that can possibly fit through
an inkjet printer
- Rexam
Image Products (formerly Rexam Graphics), media for all kinds
of inkjet printers.
- Mimaki wide format piezo-electric inkjet printers (also DicoJet inks with
Mimaki printers)
- Mimaki JF0604,
JF1218, new small flatbed printer for thick and rigid materials
- Mimaki
vinyl cutters (upcoming)
- Mimaki textile printers
- Monitors
- Mutoh wide format piezo-electric inkjet printers, OEMed as Mutoh Falcon,
Tektronix 600,
- Mutoh textile printers
- Mutoh Viper TX, 65 inch and 90-inch
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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)
- Postscript
RIP, hardware (EFI, ColorSpan, AHT)
- Postscript
RIP, software (Amiable, Harlequin, YARC)
- 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
- 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
- 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)
- 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
- Textiles 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
- 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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- Van
Son Holland Ink Corporation of America, inks for digital printing
with wide format inkjet printers
- Variatronics
(Brady) poster
printers, Variatronics XL3000 and other models
- ViewSonic
21" monitor, recommendations for monitor
for graphics use
- vinyl
printers, vinyl cutters (such as Roland
CamJet wide format vinyl printer cutter)
- vinyl
cutters (solely cutter plotters),
- ANAgraph ANA Express Elite cutter plotters
- Graphtec vinyl cutters
- Mimaki
vinyl cutters
- Vinyl
Express ColorLock
system, CompuDif, SignWarehouse
- Vivid
Image Technology, scan-to-wide-format-printer
system
- Vutek,
grand format SuperWide inkjet printers with solvent-based inks
- VutekPressVu printer for thick and/or rigid objects
- Vutek
UltraVu 2360SC
- Vutek
grand format printers, Vutek UltraVu 3300,
UltraVu 5300,
Ultra Vu 3360 EC
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FLAAR,
Digital Imaging Technology Center, reviews
by Nicholas Hellmuth
Most recently updated last updated May 21, 2003.
Previous updates: May 15, 2003, Sep. 10, 2002, March 1, 2002.
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Textile Printers
DigiFab StampaJet
ATPcolor textile printers
D-gen textile printers
Mimaki textile printers
Mutoh textile printers
Roland textile printers
Seiko ColorTextiler 64DS
Mimaki, Stork
ColorSpan
Book review textiles
Virtu
L&P
3P
Textile printing with inkjet printers: silk, cotton, polyester.
Dye-Sublimation
Textile Printers
Introduction, dye-sub
DigiFab StampaJet
DTP
Eurotech Mermaid
Gandinnovations Jeti 3324 AquaJet
Printing Decor: Wood, Stone Tiles, Glass, Wall coverings
Dye Sub ceramic tiles
Digital Wallpaper
Interior Decor, Digital
Eastech Magic Ink
Interesting Water-based Inks
HP Latex Inks
HP Designjet L25500 Latex ink
SAM Ink
Staedtler Lumocolor i
Sepiax Ink
Hewlett Packard
HP Z3200
HP Z2100, Z3100
HP Z6100
HP 130nr HP 30n
HP 3000, 3500, 3800
HP 500, 500ps Designjet
HP 4000
HP 4000ps
HP 4500
HP 5500
HP 430, 450
HP 90
HP 800, 800ps
HP 750c
HP 500, 500ps
HP 5000ps, 5000
HP 2800, 3800
HP 1050, 1055
Canon
ImagePROGRAF iPF9000
ImagePROGRAFiPF9000s
ImagePROGRAF 8400
ImagePROGRAF 8200
ImagePROGRAF 7250
Canon iPF8000
Canon iP8000s
Canon iPF8100
Canon iPF 500
Canon iPF 600
Canon iPF 700
Canon BJ 9000
Canon BJ W9000
Canon BJ 7000
Epson
Epson Stylus Pro 7900 and 9900
Epson 10000,10600
Epson 7600, 9600
Epson 7500, 9000
Epson 2200,5500
Epson 9800
Epson Stylus Pro 11800
Epson Stylus Pro 7800
Epson Stylus Pro 4800
Epson Stylus 4400/7400/9400
UV Printers
Durst Rho
Nur Tempo
Sericol Inca Eagle 44
UV inks printers
large-format-printers
Solvent Ink Printers
Bellise, Arizona
Vutek, Nur, Scitex
Raster Graphics
Electrostatic
Laminating/Cutting
Laminator
Cutter - Trimmer
Media Papers
Media and Papers
Drytac
Rip Software
EFI Fiery
PosterJet
Hardware RIPs
Software RIPs
PerfectProof
Best RIP
Encad
NovaJet 1000i
Kodak 1200i
NovaJet 880 Flatbed
8 Color 850
NovaJet 500
NovaJetPro 50"
Chroma24
Xerox 8142, 8160
Other Encad
Other Printers
Iris Fine Art Giclee
Kodak 5260
Mimaki JV4
Mimaki JV22-160
Mutoh
Mutoh RJ900
Roland Hi-Fi
Roland 8-Color
Seiko
XES Colorgraf X2
Color Managment
ICC color profiles
Spectrophotometer
Software
X-rite tools
BARBIERI electronic
Book Reviews
Books color
Digital Cameras
BetterLight
Sinar
Photo Printers
Digital Photo Course
Durst Lambda
Scanners
Drum
Flatbed
Repro (overhead)
Seminars
Intermediate Course
Additional links of our FLAAR sites
Printing on Glass
Sandwich board for recyclable furniture!
Metallic Effects
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