The
value of FLAAR being at a university is that the students
and faculty doing the reviews and evaluations are independent
and neutral.
Students
and professors have no interest in the politics and marketing
machinations of the manufacturers. Indeed the advertising
hype of the ad campaigns is blissfully ignored because the
goal is to establish which hardware and software actually
functions.
FLAAR
+ BGSU are already offering courses on Digital Photography
as Input
for Wide Format Inkjet Printing. Future courses will cover
scanning and inkjet printing as well.
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FLAAR is situated on the first floor of the
College of Technology on the campus of Bowling
Green State University (south of Toledo, Ohio).
After our first year here, so much new equipment
arrived that we had to move into a new building.
BGSU
is easily accessible from Toledo or Detroit.
If you wish to visit, sign up for a consulting
session so you can use whatever equipment you
would like to while you are visiting.
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Halley Puffer edited and updated the operator's
manual for the Cruse reprographic scanner while
she worked with FLAAR at BGSU. In other words,
when you work for FLAAR, even students get to
use the $97,000 digital photography system.
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Since
no textbook exists on large format digital photography,
Professor Hellmuth has been working the last 14
months to prepare one. Since this is a daunting
task, a team of BGSU students assist. Matt
is one of the crew doing research for this FLAAR
+ BGSU course on digital
photography.
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Michelle
-Price is a trained technical writer. Her
attention is devoted into organizing Dr Hellmuth's
textbook material and coordinating it with the
material produced by the rest of the team. She
then posts this on BlackBoard, the web-based training
software used by Bowling
Green State University. She held a two year
full-scholarship while working for FLAAR on campus.
She also spent summers at the FLAAR facility at
the university in Guatemala.
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The
main advantage of having students and faculty
do the evaluations and testing is that they have
no vested interest whatsoever in any company.
In the academic environement at a university people
just want to know which printer, which RIP, which
inkjet media does the best job. No one cares about
whether it is one brand or another.
Wendy
Like, for example, is not paid by any printer
manufacturer; not even by FLAAR. She is one of
the several key staff members provided by the
university.
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Brent
Cavanaugh, BGSU, technical manager, large
format digital imaging laboratory. Brent has
decades of experience with professional photography.
He now runs the Iris 3047 giclee printer, several
HP DesignJets, two Mimaki textile printers,
two giant 72" ColorSpan printers, the large
Cruse scanner-camera system, and all the other
digital imaging hardware and software that has
landed at BGSU since FLAAR set up headquarters
here recently.
Universities
are a neutral independent environment, ideal
for doing reviews of digital imaging equipment.
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The
BGSU + FLAAR program is also supported by a crew
of 12 staff of FLAAR at Francisco Marroquin University.
Since FLAAR has been doing photography in Guatemala
for over 30 years our facility at UFM has been established
longer than at BGSU (which just started in 2001).
Photo shows Marlon Castillo with three of
the wide format inkjet printers, lab technical manager
for FLAAR
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"Please
do not telephone FLAAR or staff members at the university.
Reports, consultation, referrals are not available by phone
or fax. Reports and assistance are available only by filling
out a contact form, inquiry form, or request form by e-mail.
If you or your company wish to hire FLAAR as a consultant
on retainer, you can do this by writing FLAARtest@aol.com
and explaining what you need. However this is not a way to
circumvent the regular request for reports. That e-mail is
only if you wish to arrange professional consulting in person
pre-paid in advanc
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First
posted April 11 2002; last updated May 26, 2003
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ColorSpan
d-gen textile printers
Mimaki textile printers
Mimaki, Stork
Mutoh textile printers
Roland textile printers
Yuhan-Kimberly textile printers
DisplayMaker
XII
Display
Maker 12
HP Z2100, Z3100
HP Z6100
HP 130nr HP 30n
HP 3000, 3500, 3800
HP 4000
HP 4500
HP 5500
HP 90
HP 800, 800ps
HP 500, 500ps
HP 5000ps, 5000
HP 2800, 3800
HP
1050, 1055
ImagePROGRAF iPF9000
ImagePROGRAF 8400
ImagePROGRAF 8200
ImagePROGRAF 7250
Canon iPF8000
Canon iPF 500
Canon iPF 600
Canon iPF 700
Canon BJ 9000
Canon BJ W9000
Canon
BJ 7000
Epson 10000,10600
Epson 7600, 9600
Epson 7500, 9000
Epson 2200,5500
Epson 9800 Epson_Stylus_Pro_7800
Epson Stylus Pro 4800
Epson Stylus 4400 7400 9400
NovaJet 1000i
Kodak 1200i
NovaJet 880 Flatbed
8
Color 850
NovaJet 500
NovaJetPro 50"
Chroma24
Xerox 8142, 8160
Other
Encad
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Durst Rho
Legget & Platt Vitu
Nur Tempo
Sericol Inca Eagle 44
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Bellise,
Arizona
Vutek,
Nur, Scitex
Raster
Graphics
Electrostatic
Iris Fine Art Giclee
Kodak 5260
Mimaki JV4
Mimaki JV22-160
Mutoh
Mutoh RJ900
Roland Hi-Fi
Roland 8-Color
Seiko
XES Colorgraf X2
Media
and Papers
EFI
Fiery
Onyx
PosterShop
PosterJet
Hardware
RIPs
Software
RIPs
PerfectProof
Best RIP
Software
X-rite tools
Books
color
Laminator
Cutter
- Trimmer
BetterLight
Sinar
Digital
Photo Course
LightJet
Durst Lambda
Drum
Flatbed
Repro
(overhead)
Intermediate
Course
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