aad
Not so new now.
Epson 2400. Great stuff.
mwooten
light user
Perhaps we could try have a printer test. Something along the lines of one of Raid's lens tests. A variety of photo printers, using the same Photoshop file, printing onto the same paper. We mail the prints to an unbiased judge for opinions.
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StuartR
Guest
If you are serious about printing for yourself, the Epson 3800 is a pretty great deal. It is a superb photo printer, goes to 17x22, comes with a ton of ink and puts out extremely high quality photos in both black and white and color. For exhibition quality prints, use a paper like Innova F-type Gloss or Crane Museo Silver Rag. Crane is quite warm (yellowish), Innova is neutral warm, and Hannemuhle Fine Art Pearl is quite cool in tone. I am not a fan of matte finish, so you'll have to ask someone else for that if that is what you like.
Olsen
Well-known
If something revolutionary has'nt happened in the last three months that I might have missed, - I hardly think so, no ink jet printer on the market is good enough to reproduce the excellent colours and contrast of the M8. Take your files to a colour lab and have them printed (or scanned, rather, as they do today) to Kodak's very excellent and very analogue photo paper. That's the best.
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StuartR
Guest
Why do so many people here present opinions as if they were absolute facts? It really drives me crazy sometimes...
neelin
Established
http://www.inkjetmall.com/April-10-2007-newsletter.html#k6usccharles said:hi,
what printer do you recommend for printing photos (and also capable to print my office needs)? i currently have a very cheap (but very good) Epson R200 photo. i want to upgrade and take advantage of my exceptional detail of the M8 images.
help!
thanks
check out Jan Cone's cartridges for your R200.
robert
x-ray
Veteran
hdrmd said:
I had imageprint rip for my 2200's and hated it. Rip was exactly what it was, a rip off. Results were no better than other applications and each different printer format required paying the liscens again. For my wide format machines it was another $1500 per machine and for some WF machines it was an additional $5000. The results weren't up with the price. You're better off having or making your own custom profiles but honestly Epsons profiles are excellent.
The most reasonable and one of the best B&W rips is QTR (quad tone rip) It's a free download and free use but if you want to pay $50 if you like it then you can but otherwise it's free. It's also the rip recommended and included with Piezography B&W K7 pigments.
usccharles
Well-known
neelin said:
cool link! thank you~
KJB
Member
usccharles said:hi,
what printer do you recommend for printing photos (and also capable to print my office needs)? i currently have a very cheap (but very good) Epson R200 photo. i want to upgrade and take advantage of my exceptional detail of the M8 images.
help!
thanks
Downloaded Epsons recently released drivers and Premium ICC profiles which has fixed a longstanding dark print issue I've had with my R1800 for the past year or so. I'm just happy to be getting prints that are not extremely dark and essentially unusable. I have to say that after countless internet issues to resolve the issue and finally finding a fix the R1800 has been fantastic for glossy color prints. But if B/W is your thing the R1800 is not for you as the best I get is brown and white prints. I'm so impressed with the prints from the Epson that I'm considering the 3800 now for the larger format and the larger ink cartridges. The small cartridges on the R1800 and R2400 can become a huge pain as I seem to have to change one every other time I print and it gets very expensive.
newyorkone
Established
HP for me - Epson, nothing but problems
HP for me - Epson, nothing but problems
I've had nothing but problems with all 3 Epsons that I have used. Clogged heads, gobs of wasted ink unclogging heads, pizza wheel marks, did I mention clogged heads...
My vote is for the B9180. Lightroom + B9180 = priceless. It's the printer I had always hoped the Epson could be, but never was.
HP has a great rebate program right now if you already own a wide format printer at least 13" wide. You don't need to send in your old printer but you do need to enter in a serial number in the rebate form.
Right now I'm lusting after the 24" Z3100. The $1000 rebate makes it very tempting.
I would recommend itsupplies.com. Great service and very nice folks to deal with...also, the best prices and if not, they will price match. Just call them up.
HP for me - Epson, nothing but problems
I've had nothing but problems with all 3 Epsons that I have used. Clogged heads, gobs of wasted ink unclogging heads, pizza wheel marks, did I mention clogged heads...
My vote is for the B9180. Lightroom + B9180 = priceless. It's the printer I had always hoped the Epson could be, but never was.
HP has a great rebate program right now if you already own a wide format printer at least 13" wide. You don't need to send in your old printer but you do need to enter in a serial number in the rebate form.
Right now I'm lusting after the 24" Z3100. The $1000 rebate makes it very tempting.
I would recommend itsupplies.com. Great service and very nice folks to deal with...also, the best prices and if not, they will price match. Just call them up.