[Leica] Advice on a 17" printer

[mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)]

Luminous landscape likes to level the field and act like HP or Canon
printers are serious options to Epson printers while in the real word of
serious work being done they are not. You go to a gallery or museum and the
odds of a print not being an Epson is about zero. One might take that into
account when making this kind of commitment to a printer and all the work
you'd be putting into it. If there's something wrong with your print quality
the first thing on the list is "it's not an Epson". Sooner or later the
other companies might start to catch up but they are not perceived to have
come close to having done so yet.  You want a support group to help you with
making your prints look as good as the stuff you are seeing on walls and in
the top photographers portfolios you'll be able to get it from Epson as
that's what everybody is using. That you'd be able to get it from an HP or
Canon and who may be on those lists - who knows?
Regardless which camera or lens you might be using to get a shot it all has
to come out that printer. It's not a place to make grand experiments.


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Mark William Rabiner
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> From: Geoff Hopkinson <hopsternew at gmail.com>
> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2010 06:37:27 +1000
> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Advice on a 17" printer
> 
> My two cents is to stick to Epson and get the 3880 unless you really
> desire
the roll capability. Spend the difference on media and ink. Which ever
> you
get you need to learn it and use it regularly  to get the best from it.
A
> least in my history with the 3800, I very very seldom actually print
larger
> than A3+. Still if you were a pano kind of
> guy.........

Cheers
Geoff
http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman


On 29 November 2010
> 04:09, Howard Ritter <hlritter at bex.net> wrote:

> In keeping with the spirit
> of accommodation and generosity that the
> Yuletide season has been
> commercialized into in the U.S. of A., SWMBO is
> kindly, unaccountably, once
> again acting as enabler to my addiction by
> consenting to my being surprised
> by the appearance Christmas morn of a
> wide-carriage printer under the
> tree.
>
> Since I have always been an Epson user (up to my current R2400),
> the
> presumed default choice would be the 3880 or the 4880. I have read here
> that
> for private users like me, the 488o offers no real advantage over the
>
> smaller, lighter, less-expensive 3880, so up to now my choice would 
> probably
>
> have been the 3880. However, the newly announced 4900 (around which the
>
> budget might be stretched, provided the counter space can be as well) might
>
> offer a reason to go long and deep on this one. My understanding of the
>
> recent history of the Epson printer line is as follows:
>
>        1.      The
> x880 printers were an advancement in some fairly minor
> details over the
> x800s, including the addition of Vivid Magenta to the
> Ultrachrome K3
> inkset
>
>        2.      The latest x900s have the new Ultrachrome HDR ink
> palette as
> well as new and improved heads
>
>        3.      The x890s added
> this better head technology to the x880s
> without moving up to the HDR
> inks
>
>        4.      The 4-series and larger printers are the only ones
> that can
> accommodate the newer head technology, so there will never be a
> 3890 or 3900
>
> The Luminous Landscape review of the 7900 certainly gives me
> reason to
> think that its smaller sibling the 4900 might be worth the extra
> cost and
> space requirements, but it's too soon for any reviews of it to
> have
> appeared.
>
> All that said, I must concede that I'm not wedded to
> Epson, and would
> consider Canon or HP if there is good reason to.
>
> I
> throw the floor open to comments and recommendations, both theoretical
> and
> experience-based.
>
> Thanks to all in advance,
>
> ?howard
>
>
>
>
>
>
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