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Epson 890

Has anyone tried the new Epson 890/1290 for the desktop negatives ?

I would really appreciate to know !

Regards,

Galina.

on 26-02-01 03:51, Tod Gangler at artandsoul@mindspring.com wrote:

> Judy S just wrote:
> 
>> a propos of stochastic dots, looking at the ramp
>> I printed with the Epson, it dawns that the stochastic dots *look like*
>> shades of grey, not black as halftone dots -- is that the problem with
>> imagesetter films
> 
> Hi judy,
> 
> Well, so many problems that I can barely keep them straight.  The banding
> that I was talking about is very interesting, or barely interesting, as it
> can be so subtle that it cannot be found, discerned, described or plotted
> under the loupe or the microscope, yet there it is when the neg is viewed
> at arm's length on the light box, and then again in the print.  I think it
> happens when the dots "grow" in one or more lines and then "shrink" again
> in neighboring lines.  Or maybe they are just lightly moved off of their
> true axis for a few lines.Subtle vibrations or variations of voltage to the
> laser could accomplish both screw-ups.  Yes, this can occur because of the
> imagesetter film's dots being a hard black or white.
> 
> Like you, I've been looking at negs made by an Epson.  Ever more problems
> there, though.  Besides the coarser tone transitions, the problems getting
> sufficient d-max combined with medium to poor resolution and extreme
> fragility of the finished negs have left me very disappointed.  I keep
> waiting for the next best printer, though, hoping, hoping...maybe the Epson
> 10000?
> 
> Stephen Herron, the author of Icefields, once sent me some great Epson
> print output that he had made with an Epson printer printing the image out
> in his Icefields screening.  It was great, and if there was a way to get
> his Icefields screening out of an Epson onto a neg, I think that would be
> very good.  That screening has a trick to it, in the way that it plots out
> transitions or graduations, making them look smoother than they should be.
> I sure could never get it to work on an Epson, though.
> 
> Disquishingly yours,
> 
> Tod G
> 
> 
> 

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