Re: New Canon BJC-7000 7-color photo printer

Jack Fulton (jfulton@itsa.ucsf.edu)
Thu, 20 Nov 1997 08:04:30 -0700

>one know anything about the new Canon BJC-7000 7-color photo >printer? I know the Epson Photo is 6 color which includes a light >cyan and magenta. I'd like to know what the 7th color is? Would >this be good for making digital negatives?

This is where I am headed. I believe it is $500 and prints 1200 x 600 in
color and prints on various papers @ 3.5 pages/min.
The colors are normal CMY and light CMY + K (black).
I'm going to try the Dico-Jet inks from from Germany which they claim to
#7 on an international 8 stepped bluewoolscale (whatever that means).
The ink folks further imply that such longevity can only be reached with
high grade screenprints.

@ Seybold in SF I saw the printer and Canon™ is an jet bubble machine
and the inks (when I spoke w/the German rep) are specifically designed
for the jet bubble type machines. The Epson are piezo crystals and hence
cannot use pigmented inks unless there is a constant and rigorous
cleansing of the heads and, even then, they maynot work.

So, that's all I can tell you.

Jack Fulton