Laurie:
My thanks to you, too, for taking the time to explain all this. It
certainly does not sound good -- I'll see what the Epson List has to say as
recommended by others on this List.
Hart Corbett
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>From: "Laurie Solomon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: RE: filmscanners: SS4000 and LS-2000 real value?
>Date: Tue, Jan 23, 2001, 7:51 AM
>
> It is my understanding that the Epson 2000P IS NOT recommended by Epson or
> others for black and white for starters. the color of the inks tend to
> change colors under different lights reflecting ff of them from different
> angles. I believe it is called menorism (sp?) or something like that.
> Secondly, the prints from the Epson 2000P, as I have read and been told,
> does not produce glossy prints or prints that have a photographic look and
> feel to them. The color prints which is does produce are suppose to be very
> nice but more suited to fine arts materials or subjects than to other
> subjects where a glossy photographic feel and look is desired. Thirdly,
> Epson has focused in its hype and literature on the longevity/archival
> question more out of necessity than choice as a result of its 1270/premium
> glossy paper farce in which they made much more limited claims only to find
> that they neglected to account for air contaminants and ozone pollution
> factors which caused orange fading of primarily the Premium Glossy paper
> which they had claimed had a life of 10 years but for many worldwide faded
> to orange with hours of printing unless immediately placed behind glass in
> frames or under Mylar in albums. I world suggest that the introduction of
> the 2000P with all its longevity and archival promotion was an attempt to
> shift attention away from the 1270 disaster.
