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FLAAR's
independent survey rates the Gretag Imaging RasterGraphics
Arizona Digital Screen Press as the best quality solvent ink
printer available on the market today.
At
every trade show for the past two years, the top quality of
any solvent ink printer is consistently the RasterGraphics
Arizona Digital Screen Press. The quality of this Arizona
printer is light years ahead of the Mutoh Albatros (Mutoh
Tomahawk).
If
you wish to use a solvent ink printer in Europe, you had better
get one like the nice Gretag Arizona Digital Screen Press
that is completely enclosed.
Solvent
ink printers have been banned under new European laws from
trade show exhibit. No more solvent ink printers unless they
have an exhaust or purification system. Thus the Mutoh had
to install a rather costly system in order to be allowed to
exhibit their solvent ink printer at CeBIT trade show. Indeed
this ban was one of several reasons why Encad decided to cancel
its development project for a solvent ink printer. Instead
Encad is now looking at the potential of a UV curable ink
printer.
The
Gretag RasterGraphics Arizona printer meets all European specifications.
This is because the Arizona is enclosed. Thus the exhaust
takes care of everything. With other printers you attempt
to put a hood over the printer and try to catch as much of
the chemical as possible. Of course the printer itself is
wide open so all the solvents invade every corner of your
building. It's sort of like the old coal mine situation and
other 19th century factory arrangements.
The
Gretag Arizona Digital Screen Press is an ideal solvent ink
printer for anyone who is sensitive to the environment and
especially for a situation where you don't want to potentially
poison your office workers with aggressive solvent fumes.
The
Gretag RasterGraphics Arizona printer is the only printer
of its class that seems to be able to print without ugly horizontal
banding defects. Yes, probably if you never clean it, probably
will get banding, but the prints at CeBIT trade show in Germany
(March 2001), no banding whatsoever.
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reports by Dr. Nicholas Hellmuth
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UPDATED:
August 02/2001
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