Re: The 1270-Bad news / QA-engineering/responsibility to employees

"Marie T." <MPennay@prodigy.net> · Sun, 13 Feb 2000 17:02:00 -0600

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Laurie,
 I've been restoring antique photos in Photoshop. This started as a
hobby doing the family photos and is slowly expanding to become something
else - cousins have started sending me pictures to do for them and wanting
to pay me.

I'm also scanning our slide collection from the past 40 years and printing
them for our kids. Originally, I just printed the grayscale photos on a
laser printer then bought an Epson Stylus II, and now just bought the 1200.
The inkjets do definitely do a better job; however, I was wondering about
the colored lasers if they were any good for printing pictures, since my
old laser really did do quite a good job of printing the grayscale ones.
Then I would laminate them. Well, at the time, it was new to me and maybe
my eye wasn't as critical as it is now. Now, I'm looking for perfection,
so I'm following the conversations here with great interest and learning
a lot.

I was curious about the colored laser - what kind of print it made.
Perhaps the printers will keep moving along and evolving as computers have.

Thanks to you and everyone who responded to my question.

<P>Marie

Laurie Solomon wrote:
<BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE>&nbsp;Marie,What
do you plan to do with your color laser?&nbsp; If you wish to print anything
like a photo that you want to have a continuous tone appearance, the color
laser ( at least those that are on he market now for home/office use) will
not do.&nbsp; Color lasers, in short, (a) do not have the dot resolution
that inkjets do; (b) do not tend to produce prints that have the snap that
inkjets are capable of producing&nbsp; ( for reasons see below), (c) and
may not provide the sorts of half toning required to produce a high quality
printed color image without a highly skilled and knowledgeable operator
who can adjust the halftone pattern to fit the image and paper.The
reason prints from color lasers may not have the snap is that they typically
use toner not ink; the toner does not have either the color gamut of inkjet
inks or the sharpness and glossiness - it produces a rather flat image
sort of like one gets from a color copy machine that is more appropriate
to presentational graphics than to photographs or fine art or graphic arts.&nbsp;
The variety of papers that can be used and will accept the toner is limited
with most being of the plain paper variety in contrast to the glossy or
coated stock variety. which results in a dull flat appearance. appearance.&nbsp;
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2000 10:33 AM
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news / QA-engineering/responsibility to employees
<BLOCKQUOTE>This is going to be a question from a real novice, so please
bear with me and don't consider me stupid, or something. After all this
hassle with inkjet printers and the expense of ink, wouldn't it be better
in the long run to just go with a colored laser?

<P>Marie

<P>Bernard Epstein wrote:
<BLOCKQUOTE TYPE="CITE">&nbsp;<TT>And what will you do when the other brands
decide to follow Epson's lead and build chips into their cartridges also?</TT>

<P><TT>Bernie</TT>

<P><TT>Charlie wrote:</TT>
<BLOCKQUOTE TYPE="CITE"><TT>&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;big snip> The chip design
may help</TT>
<BR><TT>Epson retain quality (&amp; less warranty work) and OEM cart sales,
but I may</TT>
<BR><TT>need to go to another brand so as to keep my consumable costs down.</TT></BLOCKQUOTE>
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<BR><TT>Visit my Web site at&nbsp;</TT> <TT><A HREF="http://ir.clubphoto.com/bernard198799/";>http://ir.clubphoto.com/bernard198799/</A></TT>
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