Hi,
A quick comment on the Epson printers.
I purchased the Stylus Color 600 because at the time it was reviewed to have
the *best* reproduction and color for the buck.
Subsequent research revealed that it also clogs rather easily--and that unlike
the HP inkjets and perhaps other brands
its inkjets are built in and NOT in the replaceable ink cartridges. Posts
indicated that this neccessitates eventual rebuild.
So the tradeoff seems to be output quality in the short term vs. long term
reliability and "TCO".
And I apologize for my initial participation on the list on some other thread.
Jeffrey
** Reply to message from "Tomoko Yamamoto" <tomokoy@xxxxxxxxx> on Thu, 8 Jul
1999 22:54:14 -0400
> Olympians,
>
> It has been a long time since I posted my request for volunteers to send me an
> Epson print sample. Because of my preoccupation with photo equipment rather
> than digital equipment, I have put off this follow-up for quite a while. Now
> that some of us are having a digital talk, I thought it might be appropriate
to
> bring this up again.
>
> I now have a collection of six print samples for those interested to get an
idea
> of
> what the Alps dye-sub or the recent Epson printing can do for them. Out of
six,
> three of these are Alps dye-sub prints in three different color densities.
You
> can get an idea of what kind of color saturation the Alps printer can achieve.
>
> The Epson printers can do remarkably well given the fact that it is an inkjet
> printer. If you put your loupe to these prints, you can see dots. The white
> area consists of dots in different colors to simulate white to your eyes.
Three
> prints come from three Epson printers, one is from the earlier 600 model, one
is
> Photo 700, I believe, and the third from Photo EX. The latter two prints are
> the results of six-color printing. You can see how well Epson has improved
> their techniques to deceive your eyes so to speak.
>
> Everyone has his/her taste for color rendition. I think it would be good to
> have a look at these prints in 5x7 size at least to make your decision of
> printer purchase.
>
> If you would like to just have a look and return to me within 14 days, you
would
> be
> paying only $2.00 for postage. If you want to keep one of these samples, it
> would be $3.00 per print.
>
> If you would like to have a look at all the six samples, please send me a $20
> check in US funds. When all the prints are returned, I will reimburse you
$18.
> All the sample prints have the same image of a woman carrying a fruit basket
on
> her
> head. So it is easy to compare different prints given the same image.
>
> If you would like to buy or rent only a couple of prints, the cost would be $3
> per print plus $2.00 for shipping. Since I would be using the same-size
> envelope to protect the prints regardless of number of prints, the shipping
> remains the same.
>
> If you have any questions, opinions, please feel free to express them to the
> list. If you would like to rent a packet of the six prints, please contact me
> off list: mailto:tomokoy@xxxxxxxxx
>
> I would like to thank Denton Taylor, Joel Wilcox, and Doug Smith (PhotoForum)
> for volunteering to make these prints available.
>
> Tomoko Yamamoto
> mailto:tomokoy@xxxxxxxxx
> http://www.charm.net/~tomokoy/
>
>
>
>
>
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