Wide Format Printers
Epson 7500 or Epson 9500? HP DesignJet 5000, how does it differ from piezo printhead
wide format printers? Encad? Mutoh, Mimaki? Roland, is it too slow for doing signs, posters, or banners? After three years of reviewing wide format color inkjet printers, we have prepared precise reports to cover all aspects of wide format printers. Whether you need a fine art giclee printer, a printer to produce museum quality photo-realistic output, or a basic color plotter for CAD, GIS, aerial maps, architectural drawings, engineering drawings, we have the information you need.
FLAAR reports are based on attending Seybold San Francisco, DRUPA (Duesseldorf, Germany, the world's largest printer trade show), Photokina (Cologne, Germany), Comdex, CeBIT (the German equivalent to Comdex but about six times larger), BigPicture trade show (large format printer trade magazine event), Graph Expo, PMA (major photo and digital graphics trade show) as well as trade shows for the sign industry.
The reports include culling end-user comments from over a thousand e-mail that have come into the FLAAR Digital Imaging Technology Center in the last year. Further information is derived from our hands-on testing of printers in a real-life studio environment (our main evaluation center is associated with an architecture department and two art museums on the campus of a university). Additional facts come from considerable insider tips and industry information which tends to be available when you are the editor of the world's largest web network devoted to wide format printing hardware and software.
Last updated : Nov. 2, 2004
Previous updates : May. 13, 2003,Oct. 20, 2002
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