On Nov 6, 2006, at 3:50 PM, Doug Franklin wrote: > Shel Belinkoff wrote: >> Maybe it's old news, but I just found out about the Canon >> imagePROGRAF >> iPF5000 which can print 16-bit files and uses 12 ink cartridges. >> Looks >> verrry interesting > >> http://www.usa.canon.com/templatedata/pressrelease/ >> 20060221_iPF5000.html > > That looks like an incredible printer, and I'd love to have one ... > but > nearly US$ 2,000 is /way/ out of my price range. I've been trying to > convince myself for more than a year that I'd do enough prints larger > than 8" x 10" to replace my Epson 820 with something like an Epson > R1800 > or Canon i9900.
$2000 or more makes sense only if you are printing a LOT of larger size prints. The Epson R2400 was expensive to my way of thinking at $800, but in retrospect with the volume of A3 and A3 Super prints I've been putting out this year, I should have gone for the R4800 and would have saved money on ink overall. (Just printed another dozen A3 B&Ws ... the R2400 is a very fine printer!) Godfrey -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
