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Wide-format printer

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Wide-format printers are generally accepted to be any printer with a print width between 17" and 100". Printers over the 100" mark are considered Super-Wide format or Grand Format. Wide-format printers come in a variety of technologies including Aqueous (thermal & piezzo), Solvent, pen/plotter, Dye Sublimation, as well as several lesser used technologies.

Manufacturers include (in alphabetical order): Canon Inc., DGI, Durst, Encad, Gandinnovations, Hewlett-Packard, Infinity, Infotech, Keundo, Kodak, Leggett and Platt, MacDermid ColorSpan Inc., Matan Digital Printers, Mimaki, Mutoh, NUR, Océ, Raster Printers, Roland, HP Scitex (formerly Scitex Vision, joined Hewlett-Packard on 1 November 2005), Seiko I Infotech Inc., Seiko Epson, VUTEk, Xerox, and more …

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