Talk:Iris printer

message: I have re-written this article because it was describing the wrong thing. Title is "Iris printer" so it should describe an Iris printer - not just one of the trade name products produced on the Iris printer re: "Giclee" or "Iris" fine art prints. This article in its original form was partly a redundant version of the Giclee article. I have incorporate usable martial from this article into Giclee and moved some content from Giclee here. Fountains of Bryn Mawr 21:48, 27 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Wrong description and redundant

message: Low cost consumables? I owned an IRIS..they were one of the thirstiest, most expensive proofers I've ever had. It might as well have had inks (dye) made of champagne:) HAD that is; these printers are long long gone now. The deflection system meant that every printed page consumed the same amount of ink...also too the ink had to be continuously purged by the printer; if you left it without making prints it would empty out in a few days and require a few hundred bucks worth of replacement "ink"/dye  (unsigned)
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The low cost claim was relative to the process IRIS was intended to replace -- Dupont Chromalin -- which was around US$50 a page.  An IRIS proof could be made on any paper, so the only cost was the inks (actually they were water based dyes).  I suspect, though I can't cite a reference, that if you compared the operating cost of an IRIS printer to that of a modern drop-on-demand ink jet printer using the same paper, the IRIS printer would win hands down. Jameslwoodward (talk) 15:05, 28 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: 'noted for the low cost of their consumables'

message: While the company used "IRIS" in a stylized font as a logo, the corporate name was first "Iris Graphics, LLC", and then from 1986, "Iris Graphics, Inc." The product was the "Iris printer". The name came from Iris, the personification of the rainbow, which seemed appropriate to a color printer. . . Jim - Jameslwoodward (talk to me • contribs)  11:53, 12 December 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Capitalization

message: if anyone has information or links to drivers to run this printer please post it.
theres no information on the article about what kind of computers or drivers are needed to run this printer, etc.
I know that it needs a special control board but im not certain if this machine can only run from macintosh based computers or if its possible to run it using a windows based pc.
does anyone have the physical specs of this printer, as in weight, height, etc etc?
does anyone know the difference between a 3047 and a 3047g model, anyone know exact years of manufacture?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.170.55.168 (talk) 02:24, 27 August 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Drivers 

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message: These two sentences in the article seem to be in contradiction with each other: "Iris printers use a continuous flow ink system to produce continuous-tone dot free output." vs. "Unlike most ink jet printers which fire drops only when needed, the IRIS printer's four 1-micrometer glass jets operate continuously under high pressure, vibrated by a piezoelectric crystal to produce drops at a 1 MHz rate." Th55 (talk) 11:40, 28 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dots or not?