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Subject: [Leica] How low does pigment go?
From: kanner at acm.org (Herbert Kanner)
Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2011 17:32:00 -0700
References: <CACCD6C0.15ED6%mark@rabinergroup.com>

If you don't mind risking $100, the Epson Artisan 50 prints letter 
size, does use ink, not pigment, but I put a half-covered print on a 
window sill for 6 weeks, sunny part of the day, and there was 
absolutely no line of demarcation indicating fading. It uses the 
following cartridges: 1 yellow, two shades each of cyan and magenta, 
and one black.

A friend who bought one on my recommendation was so satisfied with it 
that he bought the $800 Epson machine later not because of it's use 
of pigments, but because the cheap one has published profiles only 
for Epson paper and he wanted to use some other fancy papers.

Herb

Herb


>How low does pigment go?
>My Epson 3800 has bit the farm after 5 years. The past years have not really
>worked. I need something to buff up my 5x7 inch portfolio before a key
>visitor see's it and that's in a few weeks.
>I also need to print my laundry list.
>I may have to stray outside Epson.
>
>I guess in a few months I'll get the
>   Epson Stylus Photo R3000 Inkjet Printer
>
>I see a Canon letter sized ( 8.5 inch wide) for 89  bucks but it I'm sure
>prints dye not pigment.
>I'm hoping some quirk has made one of those guys come out with a cheap mini
>which is a pigment based printer form.
>
>--
>Mark R.
>http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/
>
>
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Herbert Kanner
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650-326-8204

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