Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/05/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]> The latest printers are now printing in drop sizes of 2 picoliters. Last > year it was 4, which is barely visible with a loupe. What you've seen is > usually about 12. The hottest of the gallery-quality inkjets was the Iris > printer, which was 8, and is now pretty much obsolete. An interesting thing about piezography is that supposedly the drop size does not matter. I.e., the 20 picoliter drop of the Epson 3000 produces the same results as the 4 picoliter Epson 1280. (at least I think I have the drop sizes correct there). While the manufacturers/marketers are one-upping each other on drop sizes, piezography comes along and seems to make the obsolete 20 picoliter printers competitive once again. Take it with the usual grain of salt -- I don't know much about the subject and I haven't compared piezo prints side by side from different printers. - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html