RE: [Leica] What's new?

[Wade Heninger <lists@heninger.org>]

I really like mine.  Does great B/W RC-style prints when I don't want to go
into the darkroom.

And without all the fussing that the Epson printers seem to require.

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w a d e  h e n i n g e r 
p h o t o g r a p h i k

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us [mailto:owner-leica-
> users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us] On Behalf Of langhans
> Sent: Sunday, January 25, 2004 11:37 AM
> To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> Subject: Re: [Leica] What's new?
> 
> Has anyone used it?  Costco had one on a coupon sale and I almost
> bought it.
> From what I have found out searching around, it does indeed do a nice
> job,
> but the ink costs are rather stagering.  We have some of those 5550
> printers
> at school that use some of the same ink cartridges (not the Gray scale
> one),
> and I have noticed that they go through ink like crazy.  They are not very
> large.  Since I am in charge of keeping them in ink, it is something I
> noticed early on.  At first I thought it was because of HP's tendency to
> supply the printers with half charged cartidges when new, but the trend
> has
> continued well into their 2nd and 3rd rounds of ink.  Those same people
> used
> much less with their old printers.  I would suspect the gray scale
cartridge
> would run out very fast as it has 1/3 the ink the standard black for each
> shade of gray.  I found one person, I believe on photo.net, who
> commented he
> got about 10 prints from a cartridge.  Not sure of the price, but that's a
> lot of ink.   Just something to be aware of.  It was enough for me to pass
> on the printer for B&W printing.
> 
> Aram
> 
> 
> > From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> > [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us] On Behalf Of Eric
> Welch
> > Sent: Sunday, January 25, 2004 2:53 AM
> > To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> > Subject: Re: [Leica] What's new?
> >
> >
> > It's the 7960 which sells for about $199.00 I believe.
> >
> > Eric Welch
> > Carlsbad, CA
> > http://www.jphotog.com
> >
> > "Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit on his hands, hoist
> > the black flag, and begin slitting throats." H. L. Mencken
> > On Jan 24, 2004, at 12:43 PM, B. D. Colen wrote:
> >
> > > What's the number of that new HP photo printer that does really
> good
> 
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