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On the topic at hand, I'll just say... Wow... That's terrific. One thing I'm often asked by clients is if this and that will match, and my standard reply is, "Yes, with two caveats: White point of the media and gamut of the device." Most clients nod, understand, and seem content with that...

Gordo, Just for the record, Adobe did not develop Flash. It was developed by a small company in LA named FutureWave Software, and originally called FutureSplash. FutureWave was bought in the mid-nineties by Macromedia, and FutureSplash became Macromedia Flash. And at the time, and just as...

Typically when people say Duratrans all they mean is backlit. Backlit on a translucent white material. Properly profiled -- and profiles are the key -- either of your machines is more than capable of printing on any number of materials that are made by any number of manufacturers. Of the two...

So, put another way, you want someone to give you the knowledge that they use to sustain their livelihood for free. Why do you suppose someone would want to do that? There's quite -- quite -- a lot you've done so far that makes any professional in the graphics industry just drop their head to...

Rooted heads? Not sure what that means, but yes, in theory you could do this. I have one or two clients who have old Rolands that they use for cutters only, just as you're describing. But they didn't go out looking for them; they just ran them into the ground in their own shops. Keep in mind...

The Mutoh is a version of the same machine Epson used to sell... 8 years ago. Epson has moved on to another platform which they have since updated three times. I'm just telling you the difference in age of the platforms shows every day in every way. Mike

Well, what I'm really saying is that one of the areas in which inkjet printing technology has really improved over the last several generations is in approaches to stopping banding. And the Mutoh is several generations old. Both Mutoh and Epson touted its "wave" printing pattern as the latest...

Not that I'm aware of, no... Although I'm not necessarily the best person to ask that question. I see just about every machine/media/ink/RIP combination there is out there, and I can give pretty good insights into printabilty and print quality. But since I don't have a production environment...

The Mutoh is actually the same basic printer Epson sold as the GS6000 -- minus light inks and green and orange. For Epson, that was four generations ago. It did take Epson four tries to get the Sure Color completely right, but they finally did. In my opinion, if the only choice was between the...

Lamination time can be an issue with solvent or Eco-solvent. But there are other issues to consider as well. Lamination time can be an issue depending basically on how much ink you put down and how much heat you give it and when -- meaning of course that your printer profiles and how they're...

As I said in my reply, it's one of the most-used RIP's in the industry and the one I use personally.

Note that Oris has absolutely zero presence in the large format inkjet industry. It's far from your best choice for what you're trying to do. The extent to which you can profile a printer in Oris is very limited as it's only to profile a machine to set it up as a proofer. If you're serious...

No, no, no... This is a misconception and just not true. I've got tons of clients who work in this market, and while it's just as true in this market as in any other that all the rules of color and reproduction apply, it's also true that it's possible to please clients in this market. It's...

Good points... When I did fine art, I had the images shot as 4x5's by a guy in Dallas and the scanned them on a Howtek 8000. (I loved that thing; wish I still had it.) Of course that was back before the days of true digital capture. Pretty much these days anyone serious about reproducing...

The term giclée actually has kind of an interesting history, but the short version is that it was originally used when large-format inkjet printing was in its infancy and Nash Productions wanted a term for their prints that sounded more exotic and high-tone than merely inkjet. They settled on...

Not as of yet, although I think one's on the way. The OP said hybrid and/or flatbed though. I'm also not sure how they are in Europe, if at all. But I'd still at least do the homework on them. It's a good group and they're solid machines. Mike

I'd suggest you hire someone to come and train you. I'm biased, of course, since that's what I do. And it will cost you money, of course. But it will cost you less money in the end and you'll get a quicker, better grasp of what you want to know by hiring someone who knows what they're talking...

Vanguard should be on your list.

Well, I'm a consultant and it doesn't much suit my interests. I think Idealliance would be pretty damned happy in fact if I'd just shut up and go away. But then my approach to consultancy has always been to provide real value and actually solve problems. Mike

Yeah, understood. And believe me, over the years, I've wrestled back and forth many times with the idea of just paying them their blood money, and becoming a three-day "G7 Expert." I'd probably in fact have made a lot more money over the years if I had. And I've done some pretty exhaustive...