ColorSpan Legacy ColorMark Pro Print Server and RIPStation - Tips and Tricks

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Appendix B
Description of Supported Printers
DisplayMaker
®
HiRes 8-color Series - Produce huge 72” wide prints for banners, murals, signs, transportation graphics,
tradeshow images and more! Or quickly gang together smaller-format prints to take full advantage of media size.
Output speed is up to 28.5 square feet/hour in HIGH-QUALITY, apparent 1200-dpi mode, and at up to 57.0 square
feet/hour in HIGH-SPEED mode. Uses 8-printhead design and multi-density inks for continuous-tone, apparent 1200-
dpi image resolution with super-vibrant colors and subtle gradations. The DisplayMaker HiRes 8-color Series Printers
offer a variety of different printing modes and ink options for optimal speed and quality. The printer contains advanced
unattended printing features including built-in dryer, humidity sensor and motorized take-up spool. A built-in color
camera provides automation of many printing functions critical for quality including: AutoSet™ cartridge calibration
and AutoJet™ cartridge analysis and compensation.
DisplayMaker
®
Series XII- New 12-printhead design allows you to print wide-format images with a unique advantage:
speed without sacrificing quality! Print at speeds up to 240 square feet per hour and apparent resolutions up 1800-dpi.
The radical 12-printhead design sets the stage for countless color possibilities. Through multiple print mode options,
Gamut+ Variable Mode Printing empowers you with the ability to quickly reconfigure color settings. The DisplayMaker
Series XII takes the developments of the DisplayMaker HiRes 8-color Series to a new level of sophistication, power,
dependability, and productivity.
Giclée PrintMakerFA
™
- ColorSpan’s PrintMaker digital color printer is a high-precision, drum-based Big Color inkjet
printer that utilizes a revolutionary eight-print-head design, 600-dpi print-heads, and lightfast dye inks to produce up
to E/A0 size (36 x 48 inch) digital fine art reproductions. PrintMaker produces the highest quality prints (apparent
1800-dpi) of any digital digital printer on the market. With Endura•Chrome
™
lightfast dye inks, the prints produced by
PrintMaker will last for many generations in indoor settings and displays.
DesignWinder
™
- ColorSpan’s DesignWinder digital color printer is a high-precision, drum-based Big Color inkjet
printer that utilizes a revolutionary eight-print-head design to produce high quality up to E/A0 size (36 x 48 inch)
signs, photos, and digital art. The DesignWinder features a ColorSpan-designed and manufactured print engine and
patent-pending inkjet technology to produce high-quality photographic images up to 36-inches wide by over 47-
inches long. Using ColorMark dye-based or pigmented Big Ink packs, the DesignWinder can produce an E/A0 size
print in under 5 minutes in high speed mode. For a high-quality, continuous tone image, DesignWinder uses ColorSpan
Wide Gamut multi-density inks to produce an image with an apparent 1200 dpi resolution in as little as 15 minutes.
DisplayMaker Express - DisplayMaker Express combines the speed of an electrostatic plotter with the quality of an
inkjet printer, and features a ColorSpan-designed and manufactured print engine that produces photographic-quality
images up to 54-inches wide by almost any length on a variety of substrates. It prints up to ten times faster than
aqueous ink-jet printers. With dramatically faster printing speeds, output service providers can now profitably produce
high-volume print runs while offering their customers volume discounts without the mess or expense of the hazardous
chemicals used by electrostatic plotters. Because DisplayMaker Express uses solid, pigmented inks rather than the
dye-based inks used by aqueous ink-jet printers, DisplayMaker Express prints are waterfast and more resistant to UV
light fading. ColorSpan's phase-change printing technology uses four solid color inks -- cyan, magenta, yellow, and
black -- that users can refill “on-the-fly,” even while printing.
PressMate
®
-FS - PressMate-FS is an extraordinary advancement in desktop printing technology. Featuring ColorSpan’s
patented ThermalRes technology, PressMate-FS produces up to 12x26-inch film positives and film negatives without
chemicals and without a darkroom. With a typical UV DMax of 3.5, heat-activated ThermalRes film does not require
exposure modifications to the traditional plate-burning process used by most prepress operations. This technology
produces 2400x2400 ThermalRes text and line art with SmoothTone and traditional halftone screens and tints up to
133 lpi.
Halon
®
- Transform your standard color laser copier into a high-quality, high-performance digital color printer. The
combined power of ColorSpan’s ColorMark
®
Pro Print Server and the Halon Interface lets you produce full-color,
400-dpi photo-realistic originals for presentation materials, mock-ups, t-shirt transfers, and more.
DisplayMaker
®
Professional - The DisplayMaker Professional is a four-color ink-jet printer that produces digital color
output up to 36-inches wide and up to 50-feet long that’s ideal for posters, displays, banners, backlit signs, and more.
Using ColorSpan’s proprietary ColorMark Color Management and SmoothTone image enhancement technologies,
the DisplayMaker Professional produces beautiful, photo-realistic large format output. ColorSpan’s patented Big Ink
Delivery System increases the ink capacity and productivity of the DisplayMaker Professional, while decreasing ink
costs. With one set of dye-based or pigmented Big Ink packs, you can print more than 250 representative 2x3-foot
full-coverage images for indoor or outdoor applications.
Refer to your server user manual for more information on the number and type of printer(s) your server supports.
* Each RIPStation supports only one type of output device (i.e. RIPStation for DisplayMaker Professional only supports up to two
DisplayMaker Professionals). There are models that drive each of the supported output devices. ColorMark Pro print servers will
drive any of the supported print engines concurrently. Refer to your Print Server User Guide for recommended configurations.