Printer for Digital Negatives (was: 1280 going berserkers)

I have not had the success others have seen with digital negatives, as I have
not been able to get the Dmax necessary to result in good prints. I am using
Pictorico film with an old Epson printer and am thinking that perhaps the
problem is with the printer and ink I am using.

As I am beginning to have my own problems with my printer, it is time to look
at a replacement.

I am assuming that the Epson 1280 works well for digital negatives. Are you
using a special ink or does "regular" ink work?

Cheers -

george

--- Clay <wcharmon@wt.net> wrote:
> In the last few weeks, my heretofore dependable epson 1280 is creating
> striping on my diginegs. The striping shows up as areas of uneven
> density that are more visible to the combination of platinum chemistry
> and UV light than to the naked eye. The stripes have a frequency of
> about 2-3mm, and show up in same direction that the print head travels
> (i.e. perpendicular to the direction the paper travels through the
> printer) FWIW, I am using Keith Schreiber's digineg workflow and
> pictorico film.
>
> My question is this: Has anyone experienced or heard of printers
> developing this problem as they age?
>
> My printer is now about 3 years old. And before you ask - yes, I ran
> multiple cleaning cycles - yes, I changed the ink cartridge, and yes, i
> ran the alignment utility.
>
> Chuck it? Repair it? Make negs the old fashioned way?
>
> Thoughts welcomed.
>
> Clay
>
>

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Received on Fri Apr 8 07:28:12 2005