FEATURE: A new generation of solvent-based printer is in town, whose price-to-performance ratios are bringing the fight back to latex. Barney Cox considers engines around the £20,000 mark and how their value can be determined.
NEWS: Carrick Signs says its investment in two HP Scitex FB500 printers has helped it increase throughput by 150 percent, as well as boosting its revenue.
Barney Cox is at the front of the queue to sample RTI's Winjet 4200, a 1.6m printer which is amongst the first on the wide-format scene to incorporate Memjet's super-fast 22.2cm print-heads.
The lower ranks of the UV-curable market might be well served with printers but Fujifilm's addition brings some advanced features into a sensibly priced engine.
