Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/07/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]It is amazing how ink jet technology can improve in less than a decade. Some years ago, a friend who had bought an Epson with a 13" bed recommended that model and there was an equivalent with an 8"bed. I think I must have paid about $300 for it, as a printer for my wife to use. This year, she bought a new Mac laptop and a choice of three Epson printers was offered as a bonus, two for free and one for a $25 co-pay. The one I chose was the Artisan 50 because it used six independent ink cartridges--her previous printer had all colors in one cartridge (Ugh). The retail price of that printer is a mere $100. After discovering what great prints this thing can make, I adopted it, leaving my poor wife with her old one. Granted it has only an 8" bed. Granted that it uses dyes instead of the more archival pigments. But, choosing the slowest printing, where the paper advances by millimeters and takes several minutes to print even a 4 x 6, I doubt that high-priced gear can really produce better colors or definition. A friend in England liked one of his pictures so much that he ordered an (I suppose expensive) print made from the digital image onto type C paper. Out of sheer curiosity and possibly mischief, I downloaded his picture from Flickr,printed it on 8 1/2 x 11, and mailed it to him. He pronounced my colors to be better! Herb -- Herbert Kanner kanner at acm.org 650-326-8204 Do not meddle in the affairs of cats, for they are subtle and will pee on your computer!