Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/09/09
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]One of the biggest advantages this printer will have - assuming, Don, that it proves not to be vaporware - is that it has user-replaceable heads. On 9/9/06 12:27 PM, "Jeff Moore" <jbm@jbm.org> wrote: > 2006-09-08-21:47:11 B. D. Colen: >> Me, I'm waiting for the HP B9180, which previews suggest will blow the >> 2400 >> away....Due any day now... > > I've been anxiously waiting lo these several months for that thing to > come out ever since my girlfriend took the fancy fine-art digital > printing course, and they had 2400s to work with. The 2400 made > absolutely beautiful prints when it consented to work, but it didn't > really like to feed the thick cotton-rag papers so beloved of the fine > printing set, and there were apparently a few other annoying > peculiarities. Their teacher, the apparently-well-known Stephen > Johnson, said the printer he really loved these days was the pre-release > HP B9180 which he'd been hooked up with for testing and comment. > > (Up with which he'd been hooked?) > > Watching this page > > > http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/us/en/sm/WF05a/18972-236251-64340-15100-64340-1 > 143049.html > > I've seen it go from saying, "Coming soon!" to announcing a retail price > recently... it should be showing up at vendors Real Soon Now. > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information