Wide Printer
Wide Printer Wide Format Printers for Special Uses Wide format printers may be considered one of the great innovations of the digital printing industry. After all, such machines have made it po...
Wide Printer
Wide Format Printers for Special Uses
Wide format printers may be considered one of the great innovations of the digital printing industry. After all, such machines have made it possible to produce huge, even gigantic prints without suffering any loss in terms of picture quality and color accuracy. However, wide format printers are specialized printers. They are not the type of printers to be found in households in general.
When we speak of wide format printers, we refer to those printing machines that produce prints ranging from a width of 17 inches to a hundred inches. Any machine that prints wider than that range is called a super-wide format printer. Usually, a wide format printer makes use of a roll of paper or textile rather than sheets to do its job.
Exactly what printing needs do wide format printers serve? Below is a list of the general uses of a wide format printer.
Party banners. Party planners and events coordinators always opt for professional-looking banners to decorate the venues for their parties and events. Party banners made using wide format printers are produced much faster and are more economical than other commercial printing processes. But such is not limited to party planners and events coordinators. Even people who host parties in the privacy of their own homes opt for party banners made with wide format printers because they are prettier.
Engineering and architectural plans. The plans produced by engineering and architectural firms need to be detailed, and printing them the regular way would not cut it. These firms use wide format printers to produce their plans, drawings and diagrams.
Education. Wide format printers are sometimes used to print out visual aids in lectures and educational programs. Materials printed for this purpose often include maps and copies of valuable art. There are museums that make use of wide format printers to produce copies of the art objects and artifacts in their keeping and use them on traveling lectures. It is much better than transporting the original pieces all the time.
Graphic design. Graphic design artists often use wide format printers to create samples of their work, especially when they are put on display for presentations, exhibitions and such.
Interior design and decoration. There are people who can get creative with how they decorate their house with the use of wide format printers. Some print their own posters and wall hangings using fabric that is friendly with wide format printers. People who cannot afford buying real art can make do with copies made using wide format printers and display them at home.
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John C. Arkin, the contributor of Printer Ink Cartridges Articles. More information on the subject is at Wide Format Printers for Special Uses, and related resources can be found at Epson Ink Cartridges.
Professional Photo Inkjet Printers - a Summary Review
Inkjet printers come in a vast range of individual products, from well-known small inkjets suitable for home use, to monster-sized systems to print advertising billboards and truck signs. Here are a few definitions in the range in between, to assist with matching buyer requirements to available systems.
A useful place to start is to understand a difference between inkjets which offer "page-width" formats and those which are defined as "wide" or "large format".
Page width printers generally have outputs which range from about 8.0 inches to 36 inches(about 18 cm to 97 cm). These are most commonly used in the printing high-volume business communications, where contents is more important than any need for images and colour. Often now associated with all-in-one print/copy facilities, such inkjets are commonly employed for billing, business letters and mailing, and individualised report documents
Wide format printers ranging in print width from 24 inches up to 15 feet(about 75 cm to 5 m). That's 5 metres - thus becoming massive and with amazing capabilities. Most wide format applications involve advertising or presentation graphics, but wide format printers are also important for large-scale drawings by architects and designers and similar trades where technical detail and large-scale output are twin requirements.
The photographic industry has its own particular needs when deciding on which inkjet application is needed. A vital part of the production process involves the creation of prepress colour proofs for printing jobs created digitally. These printers are designed to give an accurate colour preview of how the image will look when the job is finally produced on a large volume press. An example of an inkjet printer designed for such proof work is an Iris printer. Outputs from these are known as "iris proofs" or "irises" for short.
Additionally of course, exact colour proofing is of absolute paramount importance in the field of photo-art. Here, wide and large format printers, with multiple ink systems are specified to deliver colour output over which the photographic artist has total control.
The major supplier of inkjet printers is Hewlett-Packard. This company supplies over 90 percent of the market for printers for technical drawing applications. Their major products in this sector are the Designjet and the T-series. Hewlett Packard also has the HP Designjet 5500, which is a six-colour printer used especially for printing graphics as well Designjet Z6100 which has an eight colour pigment ink system. Other suppliers of low volume wide format printers are Epson, Kodak and Canon.
Kodak offer high-speed, variable-data, inkjet printers for production printing, including the Kodak Versamark(tm) VJ1000, VT3000, and VX5000 printing systems. These are roll-fed printers and can print at up to 300 metres per minute!
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Jimi St. Pierre in collaboration with travel and leisure writer Penny Church writes for several UK travel and leisure companies including London-based www.rockarchive.com who specialise in limited edition rock music photography covering bands and artistes from each of the past 5 decades.