Does anyone know if Gerber made Digital printing equipment that pre-dates the gerber edge. If so what was it and is it still used today. The reason I ask is I have been offered some brand new equipment from a friend that he bought years ago and never used. He doesn't have access to the equipment right now so can't tell me what it is but he thought pre-dated the edge. He owns a very large printing company and had bought this from a gerber dealer thinking it was something they would use but never even plugged it in. He said the dongle is missing from the program but he belives the printing machine, plotter and program are still in their boxes. He needed to dig it out of storage before he could tell me what it was. I'm just impatient and thought someone could shed so light on the mytery. THANKS!
Posted by Jon Aston (Member # 1725) on :
Hi Rob.
Gerber developed some sort of superwide "sprayjet" machine that imaged directly onto substrates that were wrapped around a big rotating drum. Pre-dated Vutek, Nur, Scitex and all of those machines. I don't think it ever made it to market, though.
They also had a direct-to-coated screen imaging device for T-shirt printers, called the Screenjet...again way ahead of anybody else ( before its time really) but it was a flop.
Other than that, it would have been vinyl cutters and console-based signmaking systems.
