Dynamic duo: copier/printers take on the volume

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Digital copier/printers use the same laser/LED technology as color laser printers but are much more expensive: from $11,000 to $120,000 for standard functionality, and another $3,000 to $50,000 for networking, controller and RIP components. The devices are worthwhile for agencies and workgroups generating a large amount of intermediate color concept mockups, design comps and other documents, and machines accommodating heavier stocks can be used for color packaging mockups. Corporate print centers, service bureaus and quick-print shops use color copiers for short-run color jobs that do not require a complete color press run. Print speeds range from 3 ppm to 6 ppm for color and 20 ppm to 40 ppm for monochrome. Color copier/printers offer reliable, high-volume printing, and while they may not match the high resolution of desktop printers, they are able to vary the intensity of the colored toners in a way that desktop printers cannot. This provides greater control over gradations of tone and smoother halftones for photographs and other images with continuous-tone color.

Photographic equipment and supplies, Photocopy Equipment, Photographic and Photocopying Equipment Manufacturing, Office equipment and supplies industry, Office equipment industry, Cover Story, Color printers, Photocopiers, Copying machines, Color printer, Multifunction printer, Multifunction printers

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Do your homework: finding the right RIP for your wide-foramt needs takes some legwork

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Wide-format printing requires selection of the right raster image processor (RIP) to prepare image files. The choice depends on whether the wide-format prints will be used as comps and proofs, as fine art prints, or as posters and displays. Other considerations are whether print-for-pay services will be offered, in which case speed is a factor, and the sizes to be printed. Wide-format printers from Encad, HP and other vendors include embedded RIP, but such devices can be slow and inflexible, and they may not support networking. Third-party solutions offer a choice of hardware- and software-based systems: software RIP is less expensive if the hardware is already available, but it needs to run on a high-performance system because RIPing files generate huge bitmaps. Hardware-based RIPs can be fine-tuned by the vendor, and systems based on Macintoshes or PCs are easy to upgrade, although proprietary systems offer higher performance.

Computer peripheral equipment, not elsewhere classified, Other Computer Peripheral Equipment Manufacturing, Output Devices NEC, Equipment and supplies, Computer peripherals industry, Image processing equipment, Printers (Computers), Printers (Equipment), Image processing, Large format printer, Large format printers

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Benefits of sharing: distributed printing can save time and money

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Electronic commerce and Internet technologies are changing the concept of distributed printing. Distribute-then-print technologies are based on the principle that it is easier and cheaper to send information instead of physical objects. Mailing or shipping costs are eliminated by sending layouts or digital files to print centers anywhere in the world. The costs of shipping are increasing at a time when the costs of digital transmission are declining. Customers can have the design and prepress work performed in one location and then distribute the final product to multiple locations. The company can employ a nearby print firm to prepare the files and then send them to various locations for printing.

Usage, Innovations, Technology overview, Electronic commerce, E-commerce, Printing industry

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