Tabloid news: your guide to the latest gossip on the color tabloid printer market
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A guide to tabloid-size printers is presented. High-quality printers are now available at much lower prices than in the past, and the market is increasingly crowded. Dye-sublimation, which does not lay ink directly on the page but heats ribbon dye to a gaseous state that is absorbed by a substrate, remains the technology of choice for photographic-quality output. Some printers cost as much as $24,000, and they are too slow for everyday use. Thermal-wax is a somewhat similar printing method, but the results are somewhat coarser. Wax-transfer printers can be used for draft-quality prints and dye-sublimation reserved for final output. Iris printers produce continuous-tone, photo-realistic images with variable-dot inkjet technology. Key purchasing considerations include resolution, PostScript 2 compatibility, internal RAM and network compatibility. Average cost per page varies depending on the printer technology.
Publication Name: Publish
Subject: Publishing industry
ISSN: 0897-6007
Year: 1997
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Bigger is better: wide-format printing is a world unto itself
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Wide-format printers are becoming more affordable and adding options for output media and quality. The machines are as fast as desktop color inkjet printers and often use six or eight colors, but they can be difficult to set up and maintain. Wide-format printer output is usually viewed at a distance, such as billboards and trade show displays, but the machines can also be used for reproducing fine art or creating photo-quality wallpaper. Lighter process colors allow the devices to print high-quality color fidelity at only 300 dpi. Icon Digital Productions and ICC Cactus worked with Xerox on a campaign to promote the speed and quality of wide-format electrostatic color printing for advertising. The companies converted an Adobe Acrobat PDF version of the Toronto Globe and Mail's front page into billboards printed with Xerox ColorgrafX printers and in place by that morning's commute.
Publication Name: Publish
Subject: Publishing industry
ISSN: 0897-6007
Year: 1999
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Flatbed finesse; The latest high-resolution flatbed scanners have the skills to convert the skeptics
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No longer is the term 'flatbed scanner' a dirty work as many professional opt for the flatbed over the much higher priced drum scanners. With the development of charge-coupled devices (CCD) the quality of flatbed scanned images is improving greatly. The newest flatbed scanners offer batch scanning, easier color management and lower prices. Nine high-end flatbed scanners have been examined fro this buyers' guide. Attributes compared are price, resolution, color bit depth, dynamic range, maximum scanning area, bundled software among others. Nobody reported any negative experiences with the flatbed scanners, wishing only that the technology had been available earlier.
Publication Name: Publish
Subject: Publishing industry
ISSN: 0897-6007
Year: 1998
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