Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/02/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Prints from an Epson 2200, 7600 or 9600 with the "proper" RIP software produces B&W images that look just like FB wet prints. This is without those piezo inks, using "off shelf inks". I've read Oriental or Seagull have FB style paper for inkjet printers now. Maybe that would be a great test to do. HP, Epson, Canon, as long as the Leica print looks great! Chris ----- Original Message ----- From: "B. D. Colen" Subject:Epson printer > Yes, there definitely are. But what you may be forgetting, Don, is that > virtually any good printer has, with off the shelf inks, provided "toned > prints." What literally no other printer has provided is true black and > white prints. And when I say no other printer has provided that, I > include the custom, piezo and peizo type systems. They produce gorgeous > prints, but those gorgeous prints, as has been noted many times before, > are as "good as," but "different from" silver prints. The prints > produced by the HP - at least the smaller version, are identical - to > the naked eye - to custom RC prints. > > As to multiple papers, it may well be there will ultimately be real > paper choice. > > B. D. > Who has NO connection what-so-ever to HP :-)