From: Gary Nored (gnored@centurytel.net)
Date: 09/29/02-12:20:45 PM Z
On 27 Sep 2002, at 19:53, Judy Seigel wrote:
> Dan Burkholder's chapter on desktop negatives mentions
> various desktop printers, including "new dry resin models...
> just hitting the streets."
>
>
> Should I recognize this term? Is it known by another
> name...?
>
>
Dan is referring to the ill-fated Alps line of printers. They
gave up on 'em -- horrible banding problems, reliability
issues, etc. They used a thermal process whereby dry
inks on ribbons were melted onto the receiving paper.
Some they called "resin," others "dye transfer" or "photo
quality." When it worked the technology was awesome --
good enough for printing 3D postcards which are viewed
under magnification -- but it was expensive, fussy, and
failure prone. Sigh... I really hated throwing that one away!
Gary Nored
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