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ColorSpan DisplayMaker 98si Starting about a year ago a new kind of stretch-solvent printer became fashionable. These were 64” or 74” printers stretched to 98 or 104 inches, trying to enter the grand format market at half the price of a Vutek. Roland came out with their SolJet SJ-1000EX and then their SOLJET Pro II SJ-1045. Mimaki developed their JV3-250SP and then their JV3-250SPF Seiko has the ColorPainter 100S as their stretch-model. Mutoh is the only company that did not stretch their Toucan or eco-solvent body: they super-sized them into first the Mutoh Spitfire, then the Mutoh Osprey, and the Mutoh Phoenix. Indeed Vutek had to borrow the Mutoh Osprey (Mutoh Xjet in the USA) to rebrand the Mutoh Osprey/Mutoh X-Jet as the Vutek UltraVu 260. So the ColorSpan 98SI has plenty of competition. The difference is that the Roland uses pseudo-solvent ink. The ColorSpan 98SI uses true full-strength solvent ink. As soon as we find a ColorSpan 98SI near our university we will do a site-visit case study. But in the meantime, we have site-visit case studies of the 72” Gator. The printing mechanism and tech support is the same, so you can use the report on the 72” Gator to judge what to expect for the 98SI.
First posted December 19, 2005
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