A High Speed Photo Printer for Exceptional Indoor Displays

LightJet® printers set the standard for true photographic quality. 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. The new LightJet 430 is also fast -- it images up to 430 square feet / 40 square meters per hour. And, since photo materials are inexpensive, LightJet offers the added advantage of low consumables cost per print. LightJet technology is successfully running in more than 500 sites around the world.

It's the right choice for production graphics shops that require high throughput and exceptional quality prints. Applications for LightJet prints include fine art photography, point-of-purchase posters, tradeshow displays and remote sensing images.

Affordable investment

• LightJet has the best price/performance ratio of any photo printer
• Inexpensive photo materials means profit per print is high
• List price and maintenance costs are lower than nearest competitor
• Customers will pay a premium for higher quality output

Durable media

• Photographic materials resist fading -- output is ideal for backlit images
• Select photo media carry manufacturers' guarantee of archival quality that is color fast for more than 50 years

Multiple applications

• Superior backlit images for airport, advertising, point-of-purchase and entertainment graphics
• High productivity for multiple prints and fast turnaround projects
• Exceptional quality means LightJet is the number one choice for fine art photography
• Laser imaging is ideal for aerial photography and satellite imaging
• Color consistency makes tradeshow graphics easy
• Archival longevity is suitable for museum graphics

Open Interface

• An open interface lets you choose the ideal digital workflow for your production environment.
• LightJet FE software accepts digital files from networks and third party RIPs using a hot folder.
• Our recommended RIP is PosterShop 5 developed especially for the LightJet by Onyx.

Demand: Sharp Text, Exceptional Detail
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 expose reflective and backlit photographic material.

Demand: 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.

Demand: 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.

Demand: 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. Its adaptive interpolation gives users the ability to sharpen some areas of an image, while maintaining softness in other areas - no other printer has this capability.

Demand: High Productivity
A high-speed printer, the LightJet images up to 430 square feet / 40 square meters per hour. A maximum size print (50.5 x 120.5"/ 128 x 306 cm) is imaged in 5 minutes and 47 seconds at 200 dpi.