Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2018/04/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Thanks, Chris. I appreciate your help. Looks like I'll be ordering the P800! Tina On Sun, Apr 15, 2018 at 1:56 PM, Christopher Crawford < chris at chriscrawfordphoto.com> wrote: > I have a P800, and I love it. It won?t leave pizza marks if you set it > correctly. > > For the thick papers like Epson Velvet (a GORGEOUS and not terribly > expensive paper if you want a matte surface fine art paper) and Ilford > Gold Fibre Silk, you have to load the paper in the front tray, not the > regular sheet feeder on top of the printer, and you have to set the platen > gap to WIDE. If you do those things, you?ll never have issues with thick > papers. > > Compared to the Epson r2400 I used for many years before getting the P800, > the P800 has deeper blacks, a much wider color gamut (reproduces saturated > blues much better), the prints have less metamerism, there's virtually no > bronzing effect on glossy papers, and of course you can make larger prints. > > -- > Chris Crawford > Fine Art Photography > Fort Wayne, Indiana > 260-437-8990 > > http://www.chriscrawfordphoto.com My portfolio > > http://www.facebook.com/pages/Christopher-Crawford/48229272798 > Like My Work on Facebook > > > > On 4/15/18, 12:23 PM, "LUG on behalf of Tina Manley via LUG" > <lug-bounces+chris=chriscrawfordphoto.com at leica-users.org on behalf of > lug at leica-users.org> wrote: > > >PESO: > > > >Does anybody have any experience with this printer?? I'm thinking about > >buying it, but some of the reviews say that it does not handle art paper > >well, especially Baryta, which is what I have bought. Some say that the > >printer leaves pizza marks across any of the thicker papers. > > > >Other than that, the reviews are spectacular, but pizza marks would ruin > >it > >for me. > > > >Anybody? > > > >Tina > > > >-- > >Tina Manley > >www.tinamanley.com > >tina-manley.artistwebsites.com > >http://www.alamy.com/stock-photography/3B49552F-90A0- > 4D0A-A11D-2175C937AA9 > >1/Tina+Manley.html > > > >_______________________________________________ > >Leica Users Group. > >See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information -- Tina Manley www.tinamanley.com tina-manley.artistwebsites.com http://www.alamy.com/stock-photography/3B49552F-90A0-4D0A-A11D-2175C937AA91/Tina+Manley.html