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Easy
way to print posters and banners, even fine art giclee prints,
full color, any size, with a large format color printer
Instead
of having an outside print shop do your posters, banners or
fine art giclee prints do them in-house with a wide format ink
jet printer such as Roland HiFi, Colorspan Iris or the more
economical Hewlett-Packard. If your image has a strong pattern
to hide the dot structure you can also use an Encad to produce
signs and posters. Museums, art galleries, can create unique
fine art giclee prints, posters and banners as can any business
that needs advertisements or point of purchase signs. But what
large format printers can do the best job? What is a fine
art giclee printer?
With
a printing press you had to print 500 or a thousand or more
posters as minimum print run. But what if you only need a dozen
fine art prints, posters or just one banner?
Now,
with digital technology, you can print as many, or as few, posters
and banners as you need.
Lettering
can be changed from one poster to another. You can make individual
lettering for each particular situation.
An
EFI
Fiery
RIP
processes all this and together with the Encad Nova Jet Pro
they produce eye-catching signs.
Here
are rollouts of two Late Classic vases from Tiquisate, Museo
Popol Vuh, Guatemala (www.maya-archaeology.org) done with an
early generation Encad (only 300 dpi at that time).
The newer Hewlett-Packard DesignJet series of
printers produce better quality photographic images than Encad
so we have switched to using HP DesignJet wide format printers.
We are now reprinting all our images on these newer HP printers
(we have the 2800
CP and also the HP 1055).
That's
Nicholas and Andrea in the F.L.A.A.R. office (you can tell
from
all the books this is a research institution). These are the
results from the Encad printer, which was great for its
day
(1997). Now we are spoiled by the improved image quality of
the Hewlett-Packard DesignJet printers. After all, this
is the
year 2003 now, and what was okay in 1997 is practically archaic
today.
What
photo paper do we select? The media (photo semi-gloss) is from
Rexam Image Products, rexamimageproducts.com.
Questions
about RIP? Check out the descriptions of RIPs on this web site
and on www.FineArtGicleePrinters.org. Our survey of RIPs documents
that PosterJet (DCS Software) is the fastest and easiest to
use. If your business requires color management then BEST is
a good choice if you do proofing with your wide format printer.
What
printers are capable of doing fine art prints? Unfortunately,
not an Encad, they are for basic signs and posters. If you want
better quality it helps to have the more costly Roland or ColorSpan,
or the economical Hewlett-Packard DesignJet. The ultimate fine
art giclee printer is the Iris from Scitex but by the end of
this year you will be able to get outstanding quality from other
printers for a fraction of the cost of the Iris.Visit our page on the
NovaJet 1000i.
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All reports by Dr. Nicholas Hellmuth |
UPDATED:
July 11, 2001
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