Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/10/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Great link, Tina, many thanks. I'm using a 700 now and was thinking along the same lines you were--that is, upgrading to the 1200. Now I think that I'll wait to see what happens with the 3000 upgrade. I, too, would like to start messing around with some of the newly available inks--especially for B&W printing--but the 700 will do in the meantime. $8000 a gallon, eh? Why, that's almost as expensive as a 50 year old Glen Grant . . . I've been printing B&W on Arches cold-press w/ varying success. I find a fair amount of blocking up in the shadows, though I love the effect--rather like an old gravure print. It'd be lovely to be able to emboss the image area to duplicate the effect of having been pulled from a plate. I'd planned on using sheet glass on dampened paper (under pressure) to see whether that'll work, but I just haven't had time to mess around with it. Again, thanks. Chandos >Hi, Chandos - > >It's my understanding that the upgrade will have the ink capacity of the >3000 but the 6-color inks of the 1200. The 5000 and 9000 work like that >now, but I can't afford $10,000 for a printer!!! I have the Photo EX now >and am tempted to go ahead and upgrade to the 1200, but the inks are so >expensive in the tiny amounts for the 1200's cartridges. Somebody figured >out that it costs $8000 a gallon! There is a comparison of the output of >all of the printers here: > > http://www.tssphoto.com/sp/dg/news/dot_comp.html > >The 17x enlargements really show a difference. There is no doubt that the >1200 looks more photographic but a lot of fine-art photographers are using >the 3000 because it will accept any inks in refillable tanks and all kinds >of papers. I'd like to have a combination of the two. As with anything >related to computers, I'm afraid whatever I buy today will be obsolete >tomorrow! They are coming out with new inks and papers everyday. So many >choices, so little time! > >Tina > > >Tina Manley, ASMP >http://www.tinamanley.com Chandos Michael Brown Assoc. Prof., History and American Studies College of William and Mary http://www.wm.edu/CAS/ASP/faculty/brown