Re: Field Conditions,was: A3 printer recommends please

2003-10-26 Thread graywolf
In your situation, Dave, you may just have to consider your printers a short 
term investment. It might be best to use the cheapest that will do the job and 
replace them every few months. I know of none that are designed for a dusty 
environment, and even if they are some sealed printers made they would be very 
expensive.

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Brendan chimed in with:  

Even the higher end printers like the 2200 are ink
monsters, 


Hi all.
Now i have several examples of printers other than my Canons,thanks to Bill and Wendy.
But, i tend to use my printers and computers in some pretty dusty,hot,windy,fly infested
conditions.I 
have noticed i have to service the S800 quite often as the pull down rollers stop pulling
down,have to 
push it a bit,and after a few months in the field i noticed,under light bulb light
only,not under normal 
daylight,very fine,less than hair llike scratches on the papers surface.None noticed with
Ilford papers.

Has anyone used their Epson,say 925 or so or Olympus dye sub in field conditions such as
mine.???The 
photographer that sold me the D1 mentioned the dye sub's can produce a poor quality print
if ANY 
dust/dirt gets in the ribbon/ink/paper. Wendy said her first on site went well with good
quality prints.

Any comments.

Dave

  			



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Field Conditions,was: A3 printer recommends please

2003-10-25 Thread brooksdj
Brendan chimed in with: 
> Even the higher end printers like the 2200 are ink
> monsters, 

Hi all.
Now i have several examples of printers other than my Canons,thanks to Bill and Wendy.

But, i tend to use my printers and computers in some pretty dusty,hot,windy,fly 
infested
conditions.I 
have noticed i have to service the S800 quite often as the pull down rollers stop 
pulling
down,have to 
push it a bit,and after a few months in the field i noticed,under light bulb light
only,not under normal 
daylight,very fine,less than hair llike scratches on the papers surface.None noticed 
with
Ilford papers.

Has anyone used their Epson,say 925 or so or Olympus dye sub in field conditions such 
as
mine.???The 
photographer that sold me the D1 mentioned the dye sub's can produce a poor quality 
print
if ANY 
dust/dirt gets in the ribbon/ink/paper. Wendy said her first on site went well with 
good
quality prints.

Any comments.

Dave