Pen plotters have already been overtaken by inkjet printers in the CAD market. Digital imaging has not been very kind to outmoded technologies of the 1980's. No, you can't, indeed I am not even sure the Gigantagram can accept TIF (TIFF) images from Adobe Photograph, which is the digital imaging software used by 99% of the digital imaging professionals in the world and the #1 software for generating photographs for true wide format digital printing on an actual wide format printer. So just be sure you don't have a hope you can print actual signs, posters, or banners with real pictures. Thus when you see photographs that have Gigantagram lettering, that is simply a Gigantagram print on top of a photograph that is preprinted by screen press or true large format inkjet printer. Thus this system cannot actually print a photograph of anything, because that would require dots, as in a printing press or dithering software as a true wide format printer. In other words, you can't mix one color on top of another (yes, you can paint over perhaps, but the result would be unpredictable). I do not see any means of mix and match colors. As far as I can ascertain the Gigantagram vinyl banner system can only paint solid predefined colors, namely the precise colors of the magic markers. So before you plunk down x-thousand dollars, carefully consider the alternatives. But your competition is already gaining clients with a full-featured true large format inkjet printer. For Ma and Pa neighborhood sign shops, this or a vinyl cutter of Variatronics poster printer are okay. However let's look at the wider world of sign making. The pleasant people at the Lazer Images booth at both PMA and Graphics of the Americas trade shows (February 2001) indicated that thousands and thousands of people bought their systems. You can print in several colors on the same vinyl, a tough assignment for an old-fashioned vinyl cutter. The printer prints at an acceptable speed. The uncoated vinyl is much much cheaper than the coated media required for inkjet printers. The Gigantagram poster and banner printer is a clever concept. Sign shops face lots of tough decisions in this digital millennium: abandon vinyl cutters and go to full color wide format inkjet printers? Or find a halfway solution, namely the Varitronics X元000 Poster Printer from Brady or the Gigantagram Instant Vinyl & Banner printer from Lazer Images which can print with multiple colors. Gigantagram vinyl cutter and banner printer with solvent inks vs Western Graphtec JX Series plotter-printer. Observations on the Gigantagram vinyl cutter and banner printer from Lazer Images and comparison with true wide format inkjet printers.

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