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Subject: [Leica] Just saw the most glorious prints I have ever made....
From: walt at waltjohnson.com (Walt Johnson)
Date: Tue May 16 14:51:58 2006
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I have been amazed how long my 1270 has functioned. Several weeks back I 
thought it was going to the big junkyard in the sky. Turned out it was a 
faulty cartridge.

Walt

Richard wrote:

> I am using the 1280 with BO. It seems to consume MUCH less ink than 
> the HP 7960. I heard the new R2400/4800 also eat up ink like there is 
> no tomorrow too. One complaint about BO prints is that it's grainy, 
> but I found that if you print larger (11x15") the grain and the dots 
> just quite match up and give a very pleasing tonal range. It may be 
> dependent on the neg, scanner resolution etc. though so YMMV.
>
> Only problem right now is that one of the rollers is stuck with ink or 
> something and is leaving mark on the print. I need to clean it up...
>
> At 12:22 PM 5/16/2006, Walt Johnson wrote:
>
>> Ken:
>>
>> The 2400 a great printer but used color in even in BO mode.I'm just 
>> getting to the point of dumping my old 1270 and getting a 2200 for 
>> that very reason. Although I;ve loaded the printer with Eboni Black 
>> it still doesn't always care for pigment inks. Have you looked into 
>> the re-loadable empties from Ink Supply? A four oz bottle will good a 
>> very long way. Once I started doing "giclee" BO prints I never mixed 
>> dektol again. :-)
>>
>> Walt
>>
>> Can you just imagine how Aaron's baby photograph could look on a BO 
>> print?
>
>
> // richard (This email is for mailing lists. To reach me directly, 
> please use richard at imagecraft.com)
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