Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/10/26

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Subject: [Leica] How low does pigment go?
From: mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)
Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2011 01:25:22 -0400

When I got my big boy Epson I let my little 99 dollar one I got in the Best
Buy go but then I discovered it would not print envelopes and then I
discovered how much I relied on that.
My handwriting leaves a very poor first impression.
And have trouble with bar codes freehand.

This R3000 13 inch which it looks like I'm getting tomorrow prints
envelopes!

I'll be making a re commitment to snail mail.
I used to like to send out 5x7 prints out in envelopes I have for the
occasion. Back to doing that I hope. Non occasion post cards.

-- 
Mark R.
http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/


> From: Herbert Kanner <kanner at acm.org>
> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2011 17:32:00 -0700
> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> Subject: Re: [Leica] How low does pigment go?
> 
> If you don't mind risking $100, the Epson Artisan 50 prints letter
> size, does use ink, not pigment, but I put a half-covered print on a
> window sill for 6 weeks, sunny part of the day, and there was
> absolutely no line of demarcation indicating fading. It uses the
> following cartridges: 1 yellow, two shades each of cyan and magenta,
> and one black.
> 
> A friend who bought one on my recommendation was so satisfied with it
> that he bought the $800 Epson machine later not because of it's use
> of pigments, but because the cheap one has published profiles only
> for Epson paper and he wanted to use some other fancy papers.
> 
> Herb
> 
> Herb
> 
> 
>> How low does pigment go?
>> My Epson 3800 has bit the farm after 5 years. The past years have not 
>> really
>> worked. I need something to buff up my 5x7 inch portfolio before a key
>> visitor see's it and that's in a few weeks.
>> I also need to print my laundry list.
>> I may have to stray outside Epson.
>> 
>> I guess in a few months I'll get the
>>   Epson Stylus Photo R3000 Inkjet Printer
>> 
>> I see a Canon letter sized ( 8.5 inch wide) for 89  bucks but it I'm sure
>> prints dye not pigment.
>> I'm hoping some quirk has made one of those guys come out with a cheap 
>> mini
>> which is a pigment based printer form.
>> 
>> --
>> Mark R.
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/
>> 
>> 
>> 
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> 
> -- 
> Herbert Kanner
> kanner at acm.org
> 650-326-8204
> 
> Question authority and the authorities will question you.
> 
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