Bonus Reports

Every time you order a second series you get two bonus reports free.

If you order three series you get three bonus reports free.

If you order four series you get all bonus reports free.

If you order five FLAAR Report Series at full-fare you get all bonus reports plus you can consult in person with Dr Hellmuth by telephone. You can arrange a conference call for Nicholas with your company managers and printer operators. You get thirty minutes of consulting at no charge.

We send you the bonus reports manually. To obtain them, send us an e-mail to FLAARtest@aol.com. Tell us what series you ordered. We can then check our credit card in-coming records to see if your order was processed. If we find your payments for the series, we will then send you back all the bonus reports for which you are qualified to receive free at no additional cost.

Titles of the bonus reports

	Determining Input Needs: Large Format Printing. This is an educational discussion of how many pixels and what dpi each class of wide format printer actually needs. This is a PDF version of a published magazine article by Nicholas Hellmuth.
	Large Format Printing: Everything your Inkjet Printer can do. This is a PDF version of an article by Nicholas Hellmuth published in a magazine.
	Seybold San Francisco 2002, report on all the new wide format printers introduced at this tradeshow: HP 5500, three Roland Pro II printers and lots more.
	We first saw the Encad NovaJet 1000i over a several day period at PMA trade show. Two machines were present in the Kodak booth. The purpose of this brief commentary is to ask the key questions to really find out the status of this brand new printer. This FLAAR Report is the only independent outside commentary available. All other stuff on the Internet is PR releases from Kodak Inc or from Encad Inc. If you wish to learn how to evaluate a printer yourself, by evaluating the ad claims, this report may enlighten you.
	Comparison of the Performance of Adobe Applications between Apple Mac G4 and Dell Precision Workstations, by Brent Cavanaugh, Lab Manager, Large Format Digital Imaging Lab, BGSU. This brand new report is one of the few fully independent tests of PC with Mac operating system. The Apple web site claims their G4 beat's Dell, but the benchmarking with Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Acrobat, and  other Adobe products shows that in actual everyday work, the tests used by Apple may not show the actual speeds of both kinds of processor. Both BGSU and FLAAR each use Macs and PCs. FLAAR uses both at each university where it has a facility, indeed Dr Hellmuth has a Mac G4 with cinema display on his desk in Latin America, in Germany, and in the university in Ohio.
	Our Mimaki JV4-160 Color Inkjet Plotter is located at the FLAAR facility at Bowling Green State University (BGSU). This location serves two purposes; it is a digital imaging research center and a large format digital imaging lab serving students and faculty on campus. FLAAR had never had the opportunity to evaluate a Mimaki printer first-hand, and we were very excited to review its capabilities. Its flat-feed design is very distinctive, and we have heard that the Mimaki’s versatility is exceptional; therefore, we wanted to find out for ourselves just how the printer performs.
	Canon W7250 setup notes
	Canon imagePROGRAF W8200 12 week analysis and evaluation
	Evaluation of Installation of Canon imagePROGRAF W8200
	Evaluation of Canon W7250 six color large format printer

Bonus reports are free as soon as you have ordered two or more series.

If you are a university, college, or museum, we are working on a special report to cover your needs. After all, FLAAR is located on a university campus and associated with the two museums on that campus, so we know what academics need.

So the bonus reports are free, if you have ordered and paid for the qualifying number of series. You need to select which bonus reports you want once you are eligible (send an e-mail to info@FLAAR.org; if that fails contact any of the e-mails the staff used to send auto-replies or the reports themselves. You can also write us at FLAARtest@aol.com if the info@FLAAR.org does not elicit an answer within 2 days.

Personal consulting directly with Nicholas Hellmuth

If you ordered five series at discounted price, simply pay the upgrade to full-fare in order to obtain 30 minutes of questions-and-answers consulting directly with Professor Hellmuth by telephone.

FLAAR will provide you with Nicholas's telephone number and suggested times he is available. You can fax or e-mail your questions in advance if you wish. You then get 30 minutes free consultation via telephone en español, auf Deutsch, or naturally in English.

If you don't want 5 series, but nonetheless very much do want to speak with Dr Hellmuth on the telephone, just take whatever payments you made for however many FLAAR reports you did purchase, and simply pay the difference to arrive at the consulting fee of $620. You can make the payment on the consulting page.

Last updated November 10, 2003