From: Sandy King (sanking@clemson.edu)
Date: 02/12/03-04:54:39 PM Z
Mark wrote"
>Nick,
>
>Are you looking for a quad black ink that works with Pictorico? I know of
>none so far that anyone has had any luck with and most, if not all are
>pigment inks. Maybe your point was that it would be great to have a nice
>quad black set that would make great prints on fine art papers AND make good
>inkjet negatives-thus only needing one printer for both purposes?
>
>On the other hand, I am not so sure that quad black inks themselves would
>give much advantage in making a digital negative over other inks. I think
>you could probably print just as smooth a negative using a spectral method-I
>think that the printer becomes more of a facter-how smoothly does it print
>and how fine are the dots.
>
>I think people have also had good luck with Pictorico using the Epson 2200,
>7600, 9600 machines, which use the new UltraChrome inks-they are pigment
>based. The Epson 2200 has a price in the $800 range and prints 13 x 44
>(Banner Mode).
>
>Mark Nelson
BTW, I see that you can buy a refurbished like new Epson 2000P from
Midwest for less than $400. Now that I see how well the new printer
driver for the 2000P works at eliminating, or at least greatly
reducing metarmerism, I would personally just as soon have the 2000P
as the 2200 because the output is more archival.
Sandy
>In a message dated 2/12/03 5:14:05 PM, nick@mcn.org writes:
>
><< Mark, while the statement from Pictorico is somewhat outdated, it is still
>
>relevant. Since then, Epson has come out with a pigment based ink which as
>
>you say, works with the film. However, that ink is not available in bulk
>
>and to my knowledge has not been tested by anyone in the lower end machines.
>
>I for one have no need to spend the required funds on a high end printer
>
>like the 10000.
>
>
>So one of these days, I'll find the combination that I am looking for.
>
>
>Many thanks,
>
>
>N >>
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