Gateway to library of over 200 helpful reports by Nicholas Hellmuth and FLAAR staff on wide format inkjet printers, inkjet media, RIPs, scanners and 30 reports from FLAAR on professional and pro-sumer digital cameras and digital studio photography.
This web site provides the table of contents of the complete corpus of the FLAAR Report-Series, including new titles for 2010.
After readers got the free reports from the inquiry-survey form they kept asking how they could order all the rest. They did not want to be restricted to the limit of three to five titles; readers said they wanted entire sets and would rather pay for them. So we have dedicated several months to preparing the new system you see on this ...dot.NET web site.
Over one million people a year read all the sites in the FLAAR network (there are individual sites with over a million hits in a single month from over 20,000 individual readers, per month; another 20,000+ the next month). But the valid count is visitors, not hits. Our site on UV and solvent printers was read by more than 411,000 people around the world during 2009. The FLAAR site on digital-photography is read by over 340,000 people a year, and more on other FLAAR sites (on water-based printers).
The FLAAR information network consists of about six web sites with over 900 pages of informative content. We have information in three languages read in over 62 countries worldwide.
This list of available FLAAR Reports is brought to you by:
FLAAR, a non-profit research institute dedicated for over three decades to improving the quality of photography in the museum and university environment. FLAAR has evolved from that previous position to encompassing digital photography and wide format inkjet printing since 1996. Today, with 28 wide format printers having passed through our in-house facilities, FLAAR is the de facto world leader as an independent information source on digital imaging. FLAAR was in existence long before wide format inkjet printing or digital photography even existed. That makes it possible to remain as a reliable outside source of useful product reviews.
And, now in 2010, FLAAR is adding evaluations of 3D portable scanning equipment as well as evaluating 3D rapid prototypers (especially those that use inkjet printheads from Canon, HP, and Ricoh).
More than 59,000 companies and individuals have downloaded the FLAAR reports in PDF format in order to figure out what hardware and software to purchase based on reviews, evaluations, and experiences of Nicholas Hellmuth and his team (of 17 people and growing).
But today, in 2010, the larger solvent and UV printers are not realistic to bring onto a university campus (the printers are too large and ventilation is not realistic in a campus building). Also, we do most of our evaluations of UV and solvent printers in the factories where they are manufactured so that we can see inside the printers and test them personally in the demo rooms. So it helps to be in a larger city with more printshops to inspect and with an airport so we can reach the different manufacturing sites.
In Ohio it was a three-hour drive just to get back and forth to an airport to fly to the manufacturing sites in Europe, Canada, Korea, China, Taiwan, and across the US. The senior research editor logged over 400,000 km in 2007 inspecting wide-format inkjet printers. That is more than a quarter of a million miles in a single year, to take notes to add to the FLAAR Reports in order to bring our readers additional information.
Today, in 2010, Dr Hellmuth has already been inspecting printers in Dubai (United Arab Emirates) and New Delhi, India. Our reach is international.
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| In late 2009 FLAAR acquired an HP Z3200 for an internal evaluation. This printer would be located at FLAAR main office in Guatemala city. There are ready two initial reports of this printer plus several others from the previous model HP Z3100 | |
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Most recently updated May, 2010.
Previously updated:February 1, 2010,: January 2010, May 3, 2008, March, 2008 May 28, 2007, June 15, 2006, Nov. 12, 2005, July 7, 2005, November 10, 2003, August 20 2003, June 9, 2003, October 25, 2002, Nov. 12, 2002.
