[Year 12 IPM] colour printers

[Roland Gesthuizen]

2 meter panoramas Mike? Cripes!

Say, whilst this thread bubbles along about colour printing .. does 
anybody have (or know how to) access colour printing beyond stitching A3 
pages together? I have had the question asked by the media teacher on 
occasion for some college panoramas and wonder if there are any printers 
or external printing services that can easily handle this.

Regards Roland - Westall Secondary College

PS: here is one I made during the hols ... 
http://www.flickr.com/photos/35945984@N00/86251817

Mike Brookes wrote:
> Hi back
> I will admit that a $10,00 colour laser printer will probably produce 
> better results than a $200 colour inkjet on normal plain photocopy 
> paper for text and spot colour graphics, but as soon as you shift to 
> properly coated gloss paper the laser
> is completely outclassed by the inkjet for continuous tone photographs.
> The dyes or pigment particles in the ink used in inkjets is much finer 
> than the toner particles used in laser printers so inkjets are capable 
> of finer detail and finer tone gradations.
> Current photo quality inkjets are capable of producing results on 
> appropriate glossy paper indistinguishable from silver halide prints 
> and I would like to see the laser printer that can produce 2m by 33cm 
> panorama prints like my trusty Epson 1290 regardless of price.
>
> Mike Brookes
> Chief cook and bottlewasher Copperfield College + photography nut
>
> Robert Ruzbacky wrote:
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> In the Potts book pg 9, it says "The quality of the printout from a 
>> colour
>> laser printer is far superior to an ink-jet printer..."
>>
>> What do others make of this statement?
>>
>> My graphics art teachers disagree with this statement (as well as 
>> myself)
>> as some made the comment that the colours don't always come up correctly
>> on a colour laser printer (in terms of tones).
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Robert
>> St Aloysius College
>> (former IPM list lurker :-))
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