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Mastering Digital Printing
Figure 2.17 The printer driver at work. Left: The basic print dialogue box from Windows XP Home when accessed via Adobe Photoshop Element’s “Print”
command. Make sure the proper printer is selected (Canon i960 inkjet printer); then click Properties (red oval). Right: The Properties screen lets you specify that
printer’s important options and settings, or it will open further screens as needed.
Table 2.3 Digital Printing Technologies for High-Quality Output
type examples max. output size inks/dyes media
Digital Photo Print
Wide-Format Durst Lambda 50"×164' photo dyes photo paper
Océ LightJet 76"×120" photo dyes photo paper
Digital Minilabs Fuji Frontier 12×18" photo dyes photo paper
Noritsu QSS 12×18" photo dyes photo paper
Dye Sublimation
Electrophotography
Inkjet
Olympus P-440 8×10" ribbon: dyes special paper
Kodak Pro 8500 8×10" ribbon: dyes special paper
Xerox Phaser 7750 12×47" dry toner normal paper
Continuous-Flow IXIA (formerly IRIS) 35×47" dye inks only anything flexible
Drop-on-Demand:
Thermal HPs, Canons, Lexmarks all sizes dye or pigment large range
Piezo Epsons, Rolands, Mimakis, Mutohs all sizes dye or pigment large range
Solid Ink Xerox Phaser 8400 letter/legal solid resin ink many options