Encad
NovaJet 850, eight color octachrome? How does it compare with
other 8 color systems such as Roland?
Upcoming,
comparison of all the new eight color printers: Encad NovaJet
850, Roland
Hi-Fi Pro, new Konica 8 color, and the ColorSpan Esprit.
Pros
and cons, how to cut through the hype of the advertisements
claiming unrealistic features of eight color inkjets. Roland
claims "continuous tone." Is this true? We looked
at countless Roland prints, printing dots everywhere sure did
not look like true continuous tone to us. So you might enjoy
reading the PDF format reports from FLAAR. Just find the Inquiry
Form and send it in. Our university makes these reports available
at no cost.
FLAAR
has always been a supporter of Encad's endeavors in inkjet
printing, after all, it was Encad that started this entire
industry, jumpling form the plodding plotters of the earlier
generation to the faster inkjet printers of today.
But
the marketplace is a rough and tumble place and shows no mercy
for inkjet manufacturers who stumble. The question is not
only whether 8 color inkjets are fluff and puff (a gimmick).
What about the good solid six color printers, such as Epson
and the newest Hewlett-Packard
5000ps? Actually our favorite eight color printer is the
ColorSpan. You can even add four more colors and get the combined
beauty and higher apparant dpi of twelve.Visit our page on the NovaJet 1000i.
FLAAR
was at all the trade shows, Seybold San Francisco 2000,
DRUPA,
Photokina, then three more in October and November 2000.
We have taken all our findings and added them to a wide
range
of reports. During 2001 our three editors visited five
more trade shows. Six more people are being added to our
staff as we open a new office at a state university. We
still maintain
a staff of eight at our office in Latin America. All these
data are provided in the reports-in-PDF-format.
If
you really want technical details on inkjet media, inks, and/or
inkjet printhead technology, and especially if you wish to
meet the movers and shakers in this industry, be sure to sign
up for the next conference organized by IMI. Their
contact is imi@tdstelme.net.
These seminars are outstanding; the senior review editor of
FLAAR usually attends because he can get so much fresh information
for the readers of the FLAAR Reports in PDF format and the
FLAAR Information Network of web sites.
Additional updates from winter 2005 onward are also being put into the FLAAR Report Series in PDF format and are available on www.wide-format-printers.NET.
