Digital BW, The Print

The flatbed printers do seem a lot less messy to work on. I wonder what a truly bare bones one would look like, just head, vaccum board, feeding mechanism, and a controller board?  A place in town has a big one people take to print on metal and wood panels, or anything really. They have been around a long time, before Epson. I believe these were developed originally for the grand format sign industry, such a printing on vinyl for buses, buildings etc. Some even used acrylic inks over a decade ago. They can get really, really big.


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