Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/04/12
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Read on www.macintouch.com (the first source for all news Mac):
Apr. 12
As expected, Epson today announced the Stylus Photo
750, a letter-size photo printer priced at $299. We got a chance to work
with one, and these are some of
our initial notes and impressions:
The 6-color device has USB, serial and
parallel ports, and all three are simultaneously active. We were able to use
this capability to connect to the printer
via our blue G3 (USB) and our PowerTower Pro
(serial).
The Photo 750 has a smaller dot size than
that of its predecessor, the Stylus Photo 700, which, in conjunction with
the six inks, translates into even finer
tonal gradations when printing images.
The print quality of the Photo 750 is nothing
short of amazing when printing photos on the Epson coated papers. The
smaller dot size, combined with the
six inks, provides close to continuous-tone
output. In places where previous Epson photo printers would show dots, the
Photo 750 has none.
Plain paper output is very good, but it
doesn't hold up well against plain paper output from the much pricier ALPS
photo printer (The Photo 750's best
output on coated stock is generally better
than the best of either Alps or HP, however.)
We haven't done any comprehensive benchmarks,
but the 750 is faster than the Photo 700, and on par with the Photo EX (via
serial connection).
Color rendition is very good, although it is
not intended to be a proofer or a comping device, and it ships with
ColorSync 2.01 drivers, which is a
longstanding problem that Epson needs to
address.
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