During two years search for the ultimate kind of equipment for every given need within desktop publishing, in-house publishing, or prepress, one make and model of digital color photo printer was found to stand out above all others. The Fuji Pictrography is the Rolls Royce of color digital printers at tabloid size (with the Durst Lamda, Cymbolic Sciences LightJet and Iris GPrint for giclee fine art prints being the Bentley's of the larger size and different technology of digital color printing).

The Fuji Pictrography is mentioned almost every time I ask other graphics specialists what they consider the best-of-class. When I visited the Center for Advanced Imaging, a 5-million dollar teaching facility in St Louis, they have a Fuji Pictrography right alongside the latest model of Imacon vertical scanner.

Indeed I was first told about the Fuji Pictrography several years ago when I began to move from traditional photography into digital imaging. The Pictrography is not a dye sublimation printer, but this web site covers all kinds of digital proofing technology. Internic limits a web site name to just 26 letters, so it was kind of hard to list all the flavors of digital color printers that we review.

The Pictrography 4000 digital color printer can cover 12x18 inches which of course is 11x17 full bleed (11.7 x 17.7), or, for Europe and Asia, A3 size. For a photo exhibit, this is an ideal size.

FujiFilm Pictrography 3000, FujiFilm Pictrography 4000 FujiFilm Pictrography 4000 color proofer printer, better than dye sublimation

FujiFilm makes a wide variety of other top-of-the-line high-end prepress proofers, namely the FujiProof. The FujiProof Extra prints at 30x40 inches. This remarkable printer even offers two-sided proofing on actual stock. FujiFilm Graphic Systems, www.fujifilm.com.

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posted June 23, 1999, last updated November 8, 1999

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