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Not Your Mother's Ink-jet Printers

Remember the old wide-format ink-jet printers? They were slow, expensive-to-use machines with high maintenance costs and mediocre quality printing. Not so anymore. Today's wide-format ink-jet printers are faster without sacrificing quality, manufacturers say.

"In the new units that are coming out, the speed factor is increasing in multiple-folds," says Bagchi. "The big hindrance in the past was the speed factor—and, if you wanted speed, the compromise was in the quality. That's slowly going away."