Digital Imaging Software from Caldera Graphics.

XES Colorgraphx X2 at DPI 01 tradeshow

We met the enthusiastic people of Caldera Graphics at a tradeshow, in the XES booth. Regrettably the oil-based ink and Xaar printheads of the XES ColorgrafX printer is not very impressive. Their software would probably appear much nicer on a printer with true photographic quality output.

But if you ignore the splotchy output of the XES oil based inks, you can still sense that the Caldera products seem to be well thought out.

We tried to get their products for review, but never got any response. So its rather hard to say much about them.

Since it's a French product, they don't yet have much presence in America.

Caldera makes ReproShop, VisualRIP, DeskScan, and other products.

Caldera DeskScan.

DeskScan is a software for handling wide format scanners such as Contex, Vidar, Oce, and other brands.

We are keen to obtain a wide format scanner since FLAAR is situated adjacent to the architectural departments on both of the two universities where we have facilities. So at some point in the future we will be able to say more about wide format scanner software.

First posted July 2002.