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Laurie, Just doing catch up here. If I remember rightly, my thoughts about the colored laser were toward future development in printers. I was wondering if perhaps the day may come when the laser will replace the inkjet. I think that eventually the problem of inkjets and refilling, etc. will be obsolete and laughable. I read something recently about printing in 3-D! The day is coming when if I break my left-handed coffee cup, I'll simply print out another one! In the beginning - way back when - when all I had was my black/white laser, it seemed to do a good job on grayscale pictures, which is all I did then; it didn't take much to thrill me there in the beginning of printing *my* pictures. Then when I wanted to try color and the Epson Stylus II came out, it seemed to me that the laser still did a better job than the Stylus on grayscale. Most likely the difference was my ignorance in using the inkjet, changing the settings, etc. Of course, neither the laser nor the Stylus can compare to the 1200 I now have, although the Stylus does still do a great job, IMO, with a lot less ink. I'm not looking for perfection, although it would be nice, but the better I can do then the more better I want to do. I'm always in awe of what comes out of these machines nowdays, but then I remember dad's Model T Ford, the first television, then Sputnik and now look - people talking on cell phones in the grocery store. It's all truly amazing. Marie > Laurie Solomon wrote: > > Marie, > What do you plan to do with your color laser? 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. 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 ( 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. 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. > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-epson-inkjet@leben.com > [mailto:owner-epson-inkjet@leben.com]On Behalf Of Marie T. > Sent: Sunday, February 13, 2000 10:33 AM > To: epson-inkjet@leben.com > Subject: Re: The 1270-Bad news / > QA-engineering/responsibility to employees > > 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? > > Marie > > Bernard Epstein wrote: > > > And what will you do when the other brands > > decide to follow Epson's lead and build chips > > into their cartridges also? > > > > Bernie > > > > Charlie wrote: > > > > > <big snip> The chip design may help > > > Epson retain quality (& less warranty work) > > > and OEM cart sales, but I may > > > need to go to another brand so as to keep my > > > consumable costs down. > > > > -- > > Visit my Web site at > > http://ir.clubphoto.com/bernard198799/ > > > > - ** Tips on Refilling, Refill Kits, Archival Ink, Cartridges, Paper ** ** Order On-Line http://www.missupply.com Save $$$$ ** ** MIS ASSOCIATES, INC 800-445-8296 Kits Ship Free! **
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