There are only three laser printers that we know of what can print long-format oversize, the GCC (used here), the Xante, and the NewGen (now Itec). So why be stuck with a dull office printer that can handle only 11x17 inch size but is incapable of printing photographs?

The photograph below shows a page at 33 x 66 centimeters (roughly 13x26 inches), since paper 13x35.4 inches is hard to find without special ordering it. More information, a view of the actual printer hardware and software, are on www.laser-printer-reviews.org. Contact for information on GCC: Bob Kinsella, e-mail bkinsella@gcctech.com telephone (800) 422-7777.

This rollout shows the only known fully-hieroglyphic Chama Maya vase. The bowl is at the top left, the rollout is along the bottom.

If you are an epigrapher and need to study every glyph in complete detail, then it sure helps to have every glyph nicely enlarged. But this is only possible if you chose a laser printer that can handle long-format (oversize format).

This Chama vessel has three rows of hieroglyphs (over 44 glyphs all together). The blemish at the left is where a section of the sidewall is missing (after all, this pot is over a thousand years old).