Canon to
offer GlobalColor RIP for proofing, photography, signs, and other
graphic display wide format printing with Canon W2200, imagePROGRAF
W7250, and imagePROGRAF W7200
Global Graphics
owns the two most respected names in RIPs, Harlequin and Jaws.
Actually most other brands of RIP have Harlequin components inside,
under license, unless they have full Adobe PostScript. So with
GlobalColor RIP you are sort of getting the original from the
original developer.
This GlobalGraphics
color RIP is intended for the new Canon 13 x 19 inch W2200, 24”
imagePROGRAF W7250, and 36” imagePROGRAF W7200.
A feature
of the GlobalColor RIP solution is its Jaws PDF workflow and color
management. The FLAAR staff will be interested in testing the
Harlequin Dispersed Screening (HDS) and Error Diffusion Screening
(EDS) and Harlequin ICC Profile Processing (HIPP). This is the
sort of great software that professors like to get their hands
on to evaluate.
GlobalGraphics
targets ad agencies, design firms, photo labs, corporate in-house
design departments. But they go further than Canon itself and
add professional display printers POP, signs, billboards, banners,
and photographic reproductions. All of these are precisely the
markets and applications of the quarter of a million readers of
this FLAAR website every year.
FLAAR does
not yet have either a Canon printer nor any Global Graphics products,
but we felt that the over 240,000 readers of our web site ought
to know about the new products.
We do not
yet know any Canon dealer nor any Global Graphics dealer either,
but as we get further into the new year we will find a reliable
place who can provide tech support. This RIP will be an OEM product
which means you get tech support from the printer company’s
reseller.
In
Europe Canon selected a user-friendly and super-fast RIP from
PosterJet. For this RIP we do know the people who handle it, both
in Germany and in the USA (Scarab Graphics) Here you can get info,
help, tips, and answers to your queries on PosterJet,
which also works with Hewlett-Packard DesignJet printers. For
information e-mail, Julie@scarabgraphics.com ,
telephone toll free (800) 350-1366, fax (805) 684-7090.
Epson and
Encad dealers are sold everywhere, even over the Internet. However
the downside is that most of the sellers don’t have adequate
experience themselves, so they can’t really explain what
to do when you have a problem. Canon does not let just anyone
sell its printers.
All brand
and product names are the registered trademarks of their respective
owners.
Additional
updates from January 2003 onward are also being put into PDF format
and are on www.wide-format-printers.NET.
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reports by Dr. Nicholas Hellmuth
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First posted Jan 3, 2003.
