Butch Black wrote: >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Bob W" >Subject: RE: Pros and cons of dye-sub and inkjet printers > > > > >>Thanks for the replies. >> >> > > > >>The reason I will need 2 is that I want to be able to print black & >>white as well as colour, and it seems to be considered best to use >>separate inkjets for this to avoid cross-contamination of inks. I >>don't think this applies to dye-subs because of the nature of the >>method. >> >> > > > > >>I'd be very interested to hear from anyone who has experience using >>dye-sub printers, and who can let me know what the day-to-day issues >>are with them. I know that the Epson I already have, which I haven't >>used for years, was very prone to blocked nozzles, didn't like to be >>left unused for what I consider short periods of time, drank too much >>ink, and in uneven amounts so I had to throw away cartridges which >>still had ink in some reservoirs, etc. etc. >> >> > > >Dye Sub, no matter how you look at it, is a colour printing process. I found >it almost impossible to keep our dye subs neutral enough for black and white >printing. >They are very prone to dust specks getting imbedded under the dye layers. >The colour response tends towards garishness, and the red response generally >leaves much to be desired. >I believe they are quite expensive to run, though whether more or less >pricey than an inkjet I don't know. > >William Robb > > >The sticky side of my brain is telling me I read about a photo ink jet >printer that used 3 black cartridges black, lt black, lt lt black and gave >very good b&w results with it. I think it was either Canon or HP. If it uses >pigmented inks and comes in an A4 size I would look into it. Also I would >not buy an in jet printer that did not use separate cartridges for each >color. > >Butch > > > > Any HP with a Photo grey cartridge, the better recent Canons and the Epson R2400 all offer 3 blacks. The Canon's (except the brand new wide format models) produce horrible results for the most part (Colour is very good though on Canon paper), the HP's are excellent on HP paper only and the Epson is brilliant on any good paper (especially on the good cotton rag paper from Hahnemuhle, Moab and other 3rd party art paper sources).
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