Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/04/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Its hard to gage feelings like that I think you can count on great subjectivity and that stuff is real hard to really test f And room all I hear in several directions is you want the youngest carts possible and that time spent in sitting in the printer is not good. You want to use them as soon as their birthday as possible. Their 0 birthday. So I would say Don't trust your instincts on this one. I think I recall people when getting a new printer to run as much stuff as possible as the carts in there are very possibly a bit too old as they can sit in stores the printer for far longer than carts on the shelf. And you can check the dates on them I think to make sure they're young enough for you. The R1800 is all about gloss which is not what inkjet printing is all about. Its not about imitating other processes which do a far better job of imitating themselves than others do. Inkjet prints make great looking inkjet prints. Prints which, uncannily enough, look JUST LIKE inkjet prints. Pigment on paper period. Rag paper. No fakey coatings. A slightly moot point as the R1800 R not made any more. http://www.epson.com/cgi-bin/Store/Landing/CompareR1800R2400.jsp?BV_UseBVCoo kie=yes Or http://tinyurl.com/luo7m And no Trans Fats. Mark William Rabiner > From: Ken Carney <kcarney1 at cox.net> > Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2009 20:54:53 -0500 > To: 'Leica Users Group' <lug at leica-users.org> > Subject: Re: [Leica] Infrequent printer selection? > > Mark, > > Have you noticed any change in quality as the cartridges age? I have not > been able to print as much as I would like, and I have noticed that with my > R1800 the prints are considerably better when I replace a cartridge that is > about seven months old or older. By better I mean a much better match with > my monitor viewed with the paper profile, as compared to a flatter, > somewhat > desaturated print with the aged cartridges. A big difference. I like the > idea of the 3800, but I have never been clear as to how the image quality > changes as the ink ages. > > Ken