DIMA 2010 Digital Printer Winners

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2010 DIMA Digital Printer Shoot-Out Winners Named

The winners of the 2010 DIMA Digital Printer Shoot-Out were announced today at the PMA International Convention and Trade Show in Anaheim, Calif. Winners displayed during PMA 2010 were chosen from 63 prints entered by 18 companies.

DIMA Digital Printer Shoot-Out entries were produced from files created by color experts at X-Rite Color Services, Grand Rapids, Mich. Participants were asked to provide specific information pertaining to the equipment used (printer, RIP, etc.), the consumables used (output media, ink/toner/dye, etc.), and the production timing. A panel of expert judges voted on the entries based on the overall quality of the digital print and the quality of the color. The panel of judges included well-respected names in the industry: Richard Lerner, RSL Digital Consultants; Rick Lucas, Digital Attributes/Lucas Imaging; and Phil Nelson, Phil Nelson Imaging LLC.

Judging for the event took place at GTI Graphic Technology Inc., Newburgh, N.Y., which donated the space and a 5,000 Kelvin lighting environment.

An X-Rite Color Checker with known values was embedded into the DIMA Target File, which was measured by X-Rite Color Services to determine the delta E of the actual value.

Qualitative criteria also judged included neutral gray balance reproduction, saturation, shadow depth and quality, overall tonality and detail, highlights and specular highlights, flesh tones, hue shift, and text.

The winners of the 2010 DIMA Digital Printer Shoot-Out are as follows:

RA-4 Digital Printer, 13 to 29 inches wide Polielettronica – LaserLab 50-20” POLI-PRO-USA Inc., Hillsboro, Ore.	RA-4 Digital Printer, Digital Minilab, 8 inches maximum TDS-1838 Prismlab CHINA Ltd., Shanghai, China
RA-4 Digital Printer, 30 to 49 inches wide Imetto, Lexta 30 Imetto Digital Imaging Technology Co. Ltd., Guangzhou, China	Digital Press (21-70 ppm) HP Indigo 5500 Digital Press Hewlett-Packard Co., Palo Alto, Calif.
RA-4 Digital Printer, 50 inches wide or larger Polielettronica – LaserLab 127-50” POLI-PRO-USA Inc., Hillsboro, Ore.	Digital Press (71+ ppm) HP Indigo 7000 Digital Press Hewlett-Packard Co., Palo Alto, Calif.
RA-4 Digital Printer, 50 inches wide or larger Polielettronica – LaserLab 127-50” POLI-PRO-USA Inc., Hillsboro, Ore.	Digital Press (71+ ppm) HP Indigo 7000 Digital Press Hewlett-Packard Co., Palo Alto, Calif.
RA-4 Digital Printer, Digital Minilab, 12 inches maximum Frontier LP7700 Digital Printer Processor Fujifilm USA Inc., Valhalla, N.Y.	Inkjet, 9 to 17 inches wide Epson Stylus Pro 4880 ColorBurst Systems (CSE Inc.), Ashburn, Va.
*Media, 4-by-6-inches* Hahnemühle Fine Art Pearl 285 GSM Inkjet Photo Cards Hahnemühle USA, Woodstock, Ill.	RIP ColorBurst RGB XProof ColorBurst Systems (CSE Inc.), Ashburn, Va.
*Media, 8.5-by-11-inches* Museo Silver Rag InteliCoat Technologies, South Hadley, Mass.	*Dye Sublimation, 5-to-6-inch roll* DNP DS-40 DNP Photo Imaging America Corp., San Marcos, Texas
*Media, 13-by-19-inch sheet or 13-inch roll* Epson Premium Semimatte (260) ColorBurst Systems (CSE Inc.), Ashburn, Va.	*Dye Sublimation, 8-inch roll* Sony UP-DR80 Digital Photo Printer Sony Electronics Inc., Park Ridge, N.J.
*Media, 24 inches wide or larger* Epson Premium Semimatte (260) ColorBurst Systems (CSE Inc.), Ashburn, Va.	*Black and White, Best Black and White with a color printer* Epson Stylus Pro 7900 using Epson UltraChrome HDR Ink and Tetenal spectra jet Baryt Paper 270g Tetenal AG & Co. KG, Norderstedt, Germany
*Media, Matte Only* Epson Ultra Premium Presentation Matte ColorBurst Systems (CSE Inc.), Ashburn, Va.	*Creative Application, Paper* Kodak Metallic using the ZBE Chromira 5x ProLab ZBE Inc., Carpinteria, Calif.