We are often visiting producers and resellers of wide format printing machines to keep updated on our technology. Often the first test they show us is how well the printer is printing a map of London (or any other city for that matter). Every printer will print this map perfectly and very fast and if one would not know better, one would buy the printer immediately. It is wonderful to see how well the map comes out, with great detail, all street names well visible and all roads colored in rightly and very nice green parks.
However, with our experience we know very well that printing a map is easy. Printing a colored background is difficult! Therefore, we always bring our own files that are notoriously difficult to print and ... not all wide format printers manage to print these files well. These are indeed difficult files to print, but often our clients have files of this kind, with vast backgrounds in one color. Therefore, being able to print this kind of file is of utmost importance.
One tip therefore for all those who need to find a good wide format printer ... bring your own files with difficult background to print as a test. This below is an example (the file is 150 cm wide)