Epson 870 Printer

["Rodriguez, Jose F." <RODRIQUJ@afip.osd.mil>]

Hello to all!

I've been lurking for a while now and enjoying the immense amount of info
being thrown around by all of you. I've found a truly great list! 

Well after strugling with a very low end Compaq inkjet, I've finally took
that big step and moved on to an Epson 870. I have Epsons at work but I
really wanted my own.  I've been a photographer in one form or another since
I was a teenager ( I'm now 51 ) and had always been old world in my
phylosophy about photography as a craft and art form. I will never ever go
digital, I used to say. Having specialized in pictorial photography and
trying to emulate, with a great deal of effort, the great pictorial
photographers of this century, Iwould simply laugh at those guys with those
little "toy" digital cameras. How can anyone do any real work with those
gadjets. Well, all I can say is that I'm humble enough to swallow my words,
hoping not to many people actually heard me muttering them. So, Now I have a
Nikon 990 and a bunch of other peripherals which now include the Epson 870.
To make this boring story short, the Epson 870 is nothing short of
phenomenal!!! I have printed out some 7"x10s from original files shot on the
nikon, formated at around 300 dpi on Premium Glossy and they are nothing
short of fantastic. My monitor was calibrated using Adoby Gamma and the
files manipulated with Photoshop 5.0.  The funny thing is that I had not
noticed that I had not set my printing conditions for the best print output
possible. I had it in bi directional printing, and at 740 dpi rather than
1440 dpi. I did manage to chose the correct paper type at least. Hey, I was
pretty damn excited with my new toy. It nevertheless turned out great. I was
left with my jaw hanging when the first print came out of the printer. I
then reprinted it, this time making sure I had properly set it up for
optimum printing conditions and once again, I was shocked with the results.
Now you must understand that I have been using a Compaq LJ300 wich used a
Lexmark type cart with built in printing nozzles. This damn things run
$39.95 a shot produce fairly pronounced banding pattern and ink dots. Now I
am actually in hog heaven paying only $19 a for the 5 color 870 cart. The
only reason I will still use the older printer is that I been using refill
ink on my Lexmark/Compaq carts and so far I have saved a fortune. I can
still use it for all of those mundane printing jobs that would be below the
Epson's capabilities. 
I burn a lot of CD's with all of my images and I like to create nice cd
labels and jewel box fronts. I printed some on the Epson using fast print
and only photo 340 dpi setting and they were better than my other printer
was producing at so called 600 dpi. This printer is fabulous. You'll have to
excuse my exuberance, but you see, I had always thought that true
photographic quality was not possible on an inkject. I had seen what so
called photo printers were producing and I was very doubtful of all such
printers. 
I am a believer now!!

Thanks for letting me vent!!

Jose
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