ColorSpan
HiRes 8 color Wide format printer.
We
have been inspecting the improvements in the ColorSpan
printer
models during trade shows in 2001 and now again in 2003.
We note advances in tech support since our first experience
with
a ColorSpan in August (1999). ColorSpan offers a wide format
printer with the equivalent of 1200 dpi by using eight
heads
(and hence eight colors). The result looks like continuous
tone. Other printers at 300 dpi produce visible dots and
are
unable to approximate continuous tone (unless you are standing
six feet away, in which case 300 dpi looks great). If
you
want a high resolution printer to produce posters, banners,
and displays that will attract attention, the ColorSpan
printer
is one to try out.
With
12 heads you get the equivalent of 1800 dpi.
ColorSpan
is the company which was brave enough to go head-on against
Iris's previous monopoly in giclee
fine art prints. ColorSpan produced the Giclee PrintMakerFA.
This wide format printer from ColorSpan documented that giclee
was not limited to the output from an Iris printer. We just
got a report from a fine art printing company in Belgium who
indicated how pleased they are with the quality of their output.
Ilford
version of the ColorSpan, at Ilford Imaging, Germany.
The
Ilford Imaging version of the printer is the Ilford IJT.
Here is an enlargement of a Tiquisate incense burner (Museo
Popol Vuh, Guatemala, FLAAR Photo Archive, www.maya-archaeology.org).
Lothar Kronenberg kindly provided a capable orientation
and introduction to the potential of this Ilford IJT wide
format printer.
The
ColorSpan
DisplayMaker XII offers triple 4-color, double 6-color,
8-color printing, or 12 color at 72 in wide 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.
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