[Year 12 IPM] colour printers

[Robert Hind]

As you say, 2 meters? Wow!

It would be nice to be able to buy say "long A3 paper, ie 420mm wide by 
??????mm long and feed that through your printer to produce a panoramic 
print.

I look forward to the responses to Roland's question.

Robert Hind, Retired
Ex Traralgon and Ashwood College


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Roland Gesthuizen" <rge at westallsc.vic.edu.au>
To: "Year 12 Information Technology Processing and Management 
Teachers'Mailing List" <ipm at edulists.com.au>
Sent: Tuesday, February 07, 2006 10:53 AM
Subject: Re: [Year 12 IPM] colour printers


>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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