RE: Pictorico OHP shredding in Epson 7600

I understand from talking to the folks at Chromaline that media purchases would have to be made through their distributor network. I found a dealer locally but they don't even stock any of the material, very discouraging. This isn't really a problem for me now but I'm considering purchasing a Epson 4000 next year so it may be then.

As a related issue I wonder if there is a way to purchase Agfa's SelectJet media from a supplier in Europe or maybe Canada. Just a thought. I've contacted Agfa USA and they have no plans to distribute the product here (at least that was their reply several weeks ago.)

Don Bryant

-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Collum <jcollum@airespace.com>
Sent: Jun 7, 2004 1:27 PM
To: alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca
Subject: RE: Pictorico OHP shredding in Epson 7600

Yes.. Chromaline sent me a sample pack of the AccuArt2 (2 8.5x11
sheets). The first sheet, the 7600 promptly shredded (happens all the
time with OHP sheets). The second one printed, and looks like the same
material as OHP in rolls. (Chromaline wasn't sure of this, and neither
was Pictorico when I talked to them).

         jim

-----Original Message-----
From: Jon Lybrook [mailto:jon@terabear.com]
Sent: Monday, June 07, 2004 9:26 AM
To: alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca; alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca
Subject: Re: Pictorico OHP shredding in Epson 7600

Thanks to everyone who responded about this problem. My friends decided
to
abandon using sheets and spring for the large roll of Pictorico OHP
(a.k.a.
Chromaline AccuArt2 http://www.chromaline.com/) for their 7600.

Looks like Pictorico is finding it more profitable to not sell the roll
format directly. Too bad. Marketing games like this usually wind up
hurting us, the consumers in the short and long term. Smoke 'em while
you
got 'em.

Jon

At 11:25 AM 6/5/2004, Jon Lybrook wrote:
>Hi All,
>
>I've founds some nice, photographically-minded (i.e. picky) people who
are
>willing to help me pursue creating inkjet negs on their Epson 7600.
The
>results are excellent, except for the annoying side effect that in
their
>testing with 8.5x11 Pictorico OHP stock, the printer has been shredding

>the media.
>
>Any folks out there with large format printers come across this
>problem? I'm wondering if it's only a problem with the smaller stock
and
>that perhaps the problem would go away if we print on larger media.
Any
>advice appreciated. They are in touch with Pictorico and Epson with no

>answers yet.
>
>Thanks,
>Jon
>
Received on Mon Jun 7 11:39:31 2004