Wide Format Opportunities

With wide-format printers already installed in 31 percent of in-plants, the technology is clearly catching on. What most surprises new owners is the unique uses customers are finding for these printers—jobs they never dreamed of when they bought the devices.

From Proofs to Posters

Three years ago, Printing Services at Southwest Missouri State University in Springfield purchased a 44˝ Epson 10000 with archival ink. The goal was to use it to do color proofs before going to film, with the idea the operation would sell an occasional poster or banner, says Mark McCarty, manager. But posters and banners started flying off the printer, and soon the 11-employee in-plant was printing display board with charts and graphs for departmental research projects.