Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/03/25

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: Leica B/W digital printing options
From: George Hartzell <hartzell@kestrel.alerce.com>
Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2002 19:01:01 -0800
References: <4BCC8C3C-405A-11D6-9C84-00050289F09A@sympatico.ca>

William Gower writes:
 > [...]
 > The chipped MIS cartridges have been a real pain the ass -  50% of the 
 > time they are not recognized by the printer. This leaves me to yank out 
 > the cartridge, replace the MIS chip it with an OEM Epson chip, replace 
 > the MIS cartridge, purge, print, purge, print....until I get a good 
 > nozzle  pattern. This wastes a whole lot of expensive ink.
 > 
 > I've written a letter to MIS explaining the problem and returned a few 
 > faulty chips, but I haven't gotten a response from them yet.
 > 
 > Otherwise, using one of the RGB workflow methods (I prefer the slightly 
 > warm curve on Epson Archival Matte or Epson Premium Semigloss) I'm 
 > convinced that archival Quadtone (or in my case Hextone) printing is the 
 > way for me. A larger A3 printer and a CIS is on the horizon.
 > [...]

The nomorecarts system has gotten good reviews on the 1280.  They're
not selling direct anymore, but you can get it from Media Street

  http://www.mediastreet.com/cgi-bin/tame/mediastreet/niagra.tam

and (I think) others.

g.

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