Large Format Printing

San Diego’s Finest Giclee Printing

New Evolution Has Arrived.

How do you know when technology will forever change the way you produce your vision? How often does a technology come along that dramatically changes an industry?.

Introducing the all-new Epson Stylus Pro 9800.

Inspired by past-generations of photographic printing technology, the latest 44-inch Epson Stylus Pro 9800 professional wide-format printers incorporate forward-thinking designs with abreakthrough new 8-color ink technology, resulting in a final print of uncompromising quality.

Epson UltraChrome K3 ink technology represents a defining moment in the history of ink jet printing. Based on the newest-generation of pigment ink, Epson UltraChrome K3 ink incorporates eight new color pigments, including a new three-level black technology, dramatically raising the bar for professional color and black and white prints.

Imagine producing archival prints with amazing color fidelity, gloss-level, and scratch resistance, while providing consistently stable colors that significantly outperform lesser ink technologies. Imagine producing professional neutral and toned black and white prints with higher density levels and virtually no metamerism or bronzing.

Incorporating the latest 1-inch wide printhead, produces almost twice the print performance of the previous model line. While an astonishing resolution of 2880 x 1440 dpi deliver a level of image quality that even exceeds our previous best.

Capable of handling virtually any media type, in roll or cut sheet, up to 44-inch wide, Epson once again sets the standard for professional media use. Whether you reproducing sellable color or black and white photography, fine art reproduction, or producing color accurate proofs for client approvals, never before have creative professionals had such a powerful tool allowing them to produce their vision without compromise.

The latest wide-format printers represent a level of technology unprecedented in Epson’s history. Combining the extreme precision of a Stylus Pro print engine, along with the extraordinary performance of UltraChrome K3 Ink technology, Epson has once again redefined the future of wide-format giclee printing.

Environmentally Friendly Inks

Durst RHO 600 Pictor Is Ideal For:

• Small Items Which, in the Past, Could not be Printed Digitally
• Large Outdoor Signage
• Printing on Glass
• POS and POP displays, indoor and outdoor advertising and exhibition graphics

This amazing machine can print on ANYTHING, as long as it’s under 64″ wide and less than 1.5″ thick. Featuring UV-curable inks, The Durst RHO 600 Pictor produces output that is detailed, vibrant, outdoors-friendly and very durable. Its advanced ink formulation has properties that allow inks to stick to any surface, including plexiglass or ceramics and, once exposed to UV light, are very stable and will not fade. Due to these qualities and the unit’s blistering speed Durst is mostly used for printing store and outdoor signage, however artists are finding many diverse applications for this remarkable printer – we have printed on everything from denim to leather to neoprene.

The Durst RHO 600 Pictor delivers 600dpi resolution (using a stochastic pattern) and has a wide range of quality settings – making it perfect for great many applications in any size, from mousepads to billboards. And last but not least – unlike it’s polluting, solvent-inks-based brethren, Durst UV is environmentally friendly. Only Durst would assure Digital One that their process/inks were VOC and solvent-free. The Durst Rho 600 Pictor provided us with a good entry platform to get into the large-format UV inkjet market and it was the most environmentally-friendly printer we could find.

“Lightjet prints are true photographs on actual photographic paper”

Talk about serious imaging power, Digital One Color is the only shop in San Diego with two LightJet 430′s you can image Giant Photo’s San Diego! The Lightjet 430 has a 36-bit color space, capable of producing 68 billion colors, which ensures optimum control over the light source to reproduce color with perfect fidelity. In comparison, other photo printers are limited to 24 bits or 16.7 million colors.

There are some things that even a 1200 or 1400 dpi inkjet printer cannot do. They can simulate or come close to continuous tone, but there are special wide format printers that achieve continuous tone naturally. The Lightjet exposes photographic paper with laser light. There is no ink, and no printhead going back and forth, hence no banding, no grainy dot pattern.

A Lightjet photograph is an actual photographic print exposed by the Lightjet 430 laser photo imager. The printer reads the information in a digital file, then uses lasers to expose the image onto various photo materials made by Kodak and Fuji. This materials have been tested to be more archival than other popular color printing methods (lasting over 60 years without noticeable fading in controlled conditions), including Ilfochrome printing. Unlike inkjet prints, which lay ink on paper, Lightjet prints are made on light-sensitive photo paper, which is exposed with red, green and blue lasers.

Lightjet printers set the standard for true photographic quality. An internal drum holds photo media stationary while imaging with three lasers, achieving image quality superior to all wide format printers – photographic, inkjet and electrostatic.

Lightjet’s imaging technology ensures a constant pixel size, shape and intensity over the entire image. Media is held stationary within a precision internal drum, while a spinning mirror directs laser light to expose the photographic material.

Using red, green and blue lasers, the Lightjet 430 achieves true continuous-tone. Inkjet and electrostatic printers, which simulate photo quality with half-tone dot patterns, would need to image at 4000 dpi to duplicate the same image crispness, highlights and shadow detail.

Archival quality: Normal exposure to indoor light sources should not cause any significant fading for 60+ years. Direct sunlight may shorten life. Not recommended for long term outdoor use.

The Lightjet 430 can print true continuous tone images up to 50″ by 120″ with a hardware optical resolution of 300 dpi. For high-volume applications resolution can be lowered to 200dpi (via dedicated set of large aperture optics), while doubling the output. A dedicated on-board interpolation engine allows for smooth scaling of low-res images for optimal printing results. Because of its generous colour gamut, art to be printed on LJ430 is best represented using AdobeRGB1998 colour space.

Vinyl Banners

• Quality Vinyl Banners

At 104″ wide, the SOLJET SJ-1045 grand format printer is designed
to meet the demands of both high quality and high productivity printing.

Blazing print speed and brilliant print quality The SJ-1045 is Roland’s fastest inkjet, with an ultra-fast print speed of 484 sqft./hr. at 360 dpi that prints large banners in just minutes. Resolutions up to 1440 dpi and advanced variable droplet technology produce vibrant, photorealistic images and deliver a wide color gamut.

New ECO-SOL MAX ink adds punch to your graphics
Revolutionary new ECO-SOL MAX ink boosts the performance of your SOLJET PRO II V inkjet with wider color gamut, improved scratch resistance, faster drying time, and lower cost per square foot. In addition, ECO-SOL MAX is virtually odorless, safe to use, and durable up to three years outdoors without lamination.

CMYKLcLm
Six-color CMYKLcLm ensures optimum photorealistic quality and color gamut, even when viewing from a short distance.

High capacity ink delivery system
To ensure performance for long production runs, the high capacity ink delivery system incorporates a total of 24 – 220 cc ink cartridges.

Automated media feed and take up system
Large media can present a sizeable challenge. The SJ-1045′s front-mounted feed and take-up rollers and dual idler roller system applies tension to rolls to ensure media is fed straight, even when unattended. The system supports rolls weighing up to 220 lbs. and offers convenient front access for loading and unloading of both feed and take-up rolls.

Banners imaged on the HP Scitex XL 1500 Grand Format Printer are of the highest quality.

Technology	Drop-on-demand, piezoelectric inkjet  8-color: C,M,Y,K, LC,LM,LY,LK process Switchable between 4, 6 and 8-color process
Resolution (max)	370×740 dpi1
Print size (max)	Width:  HP Scitex XL1500 5 meters  5 m / 16.4 ft Length: media roll
Speeds (max)	HP Scitex XL1500 5 meters  124 sqm/hr / 1,333 sqft/hr
Media	Width (max):  HP Scitex XL1500 5 meters  5.2m / 17ft Handling: Roll-to-roll or roll-to-sheet printing Types: Self-adhesive vinyl, PVC, mesh, fabrics, flexface banner, paper, and more.
Ink	HP Scitex XL300 Supreme.  Pigment and solvent-based. Supreme ink is UV-durable for up to two years2
Special features	Switch between four, six and eight colors and back  Load file while printing Sample mode  sharp eight-point text Multi-roll handling Backlit and double-sided printing Skip white HP Supertext Zero gap between files

Ideal for wide variety of applications including banners, signs, labels, cut decals, POP displays, vehicle graphics, cut letters and much more.

• Rugged, scratch resistant ECO-SOL MAX ink
• Precise Contour Cut Decals
• Outstanding print quality for indoors and durability up to 3-years outdoors!