Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/04/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]While the 3000 will happily print w/ color inks, it isn't nearly close to being dotless. For color printing, the Epson 1270 is the state of the art. People seem to love the 3000 because of it's economy (large ink cart's and easily refilling). Since the peizography tools don't need to dither and the apparent resolution is so much higher, the slightly retro technology in the 3000 isn't a problem. Jon's talking about a Peizography set for the 1160 (I think that's the model...), which is a four color printer w/ the same itty-bitty dot size as the 1270. He thinks it'll make marginally better prints but be much more expensive to operate (it uses smaller, harder to refill ink cartridges) and (I think) it's constrained to smaller papers. With color printing and dithering, it's a whole different story. g. Tina Manley writes: > At 03:54 PM 4/12/00 -0500, Chuck wrote: > >Tina, Seems like I'm having a lot of senior moments today. > >Excuse the dumb question, but will this printer also print in > >color? From the web site I saw color ink for sale, but not clear > >if it was for this machine. > >Chuck > > Chuck - > > The printer will print in color, but in order to use the QuadBlack inks, > you have to flush out all of the inks in the printer and load the 4 black > inks. I have kept my PhotoEx to use for color because it would be too much > trouble to flush out the inks on the 3000 every time I wanted to switch > from B&W to color.