[alt-photo] Re: Recommendations for Replacement Printer? InputNeeded!

[fdfragomeni at gmail.com]

How does the reduction in density affect the normal printing on high quality papers? I don't use transparency or use standard digital negs on OHP or other transparency materials. The printing of the inter-negs and inter-positives I use relates more closely to how the printer prints on standard and high quality papers so I'm curious if people are seeing an effect of the reduction of ink density when printing on paper.

-Francesco 
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I am very unhappy with it, Francesco. Now, granted, for gum printing it works fine, or even for cyanotype or other processes. But with pt/pd I have to increase ink density dramatically, and for gelatin silver I just print at school on the 3800 and don't mess with it.

The fact that Epson is trying to save us money by creating an ink driver that lays down less ink (says so on their website or somewhere) is not doing digital negative users any good. 

But for gum and casein and cyano the negs are just fine, and the printer is quiet and very good.

I'm just a bit disgruntled because I thought I was getting more like a 3800. So don't listen to me...

Chris

Christina Z. Anderson
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On Sep 25, 2011, at 4:53 PM, Francesco Fragomeni wrote:

> Chris,
> 
> What does that mean? Are you happy about this or unhappy about it?
> 
> Thanks!
> -Francesco
> 
> On Sun, Sep 25, 2011 at 2:59 PM, Christina Anderson <zphoto at montana.net>wrote:
> 
>> Amen, Bro!
>> Chris
>> 
>>> I have a 3880...So far, it appears to me that they have really changed
>> the driver with this machine.  I'm basing this on the fact that it lays down
>> much less ink when set identical to the 3800 and you can measure this with a
>> densitometer.
>>> Best Wishes,
>>> Mark Nelson
>>> 
>> 
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