laser exposure/photo paper

SHARPNESS/COLOR REALISM

Our printer is the LightJet 430 from Cymbolic Sciences. Using lasers and interpolation tecniques developed for satellites, this is the ultimate photo printer.

Advantage:LightJet's imaging technology ensures a constant pixel size, shape and intensity over the entire image. Media is held stationary within a precision internal drum, while a spinning mirror directs laser light to exposes the paper or backlit photographic material.

Advantage:No Visible Dots - Using red, green and blue lasers, the LightJet achieves true continuous-tone. Inkjet and electrostatic printers, which simulate photo quality with half-tone dot patterns, would need to image at 4000 dpi to duplicate the same image crispness, highlights and shadow detail.

Advantage: Ultimate Color Fidelity -The LightJet has a 36-bit color space, capable of producing 68 billion colors, which ensures optimum control over the light source to reproduce color with perfect fidelity. In comparison, other photo printers are limited to 24 bits or 16.7 million colors.

Advantage: Real-time Hardware Interpolation - The LightJet enhances sharpness through on-the-fly pixel interpolation. Because the pixels are faithful to the original image, the system can output small files at high resolution with no loss of sharpness. An internal drum holds photo media stationary while imaging with three lasers, achieving image quality superior to all wide format printers - photographic, inkjet and electrostatic.

There is another advantage to Thompson LightJet and it is beyond technology...