2000P - First impressions

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<x-charset iso-8859-1>My shiny new 2000P arrived this afternoon.  My wife was of course
*delighted* to see my new purchase arrive (I just know I'm going to suffer
soon...)

These are some very preliminary, personal, impressions based on just 2 A4
prints and one evening with the printer.  Not exactly scientific,  but there
we are.  Your mileage may vary, as they say.

First off, the printer looks almost like a cross between a 1200 and a 1270.
The main body is clearly of 1270 origin, but the top cover, in a fetching
shade of silver, contrasts nicely with the dark grey body, and has a viewing
slot similar to the 1200.  Operationally it is identical to the 1270, and
the ink carts look very similar to the 1270, with the same ink level chips.

The only papers available for selection in the driver are Archival Matte,
Premium SemiGloss Photo, Glossy Paper photoweight, and Plain paper.  The
printer came with 5 sheets each of A4 size Archival Matte and Premium
semigloss.  The Archival Matte looks and feels absolutely identical to the
Matte - Heavyweight of 1270 fame. It could be that the archival stuff is a
low acid version of the ordinary matte, who knows.  The semigloss paper
looks and feels like semigloss photolab paper, only nicer.

The only print quality choice in the driver is "Photo" or "Fine", which I
assume equates with 1440 or 720 output.

I have tried printing 2 A4 versions of a colourful print of a scene in
Greece, taken on Kodak 100VS 120 slide film. I have an A3 print of this done
on a 1270 hanging on a bathroom wall.

I tried the Archival Matte first.  Speed seemed OK, but then this is an A4
print...

I compared the 2000P A4 print on Archival Matte side by side with the A3
1270 print done on Matte Heavyweight.  My initial view was that the 2000P
print was very similar to the 1270 print, with 2 differences that I could
tell.  First, the 2000P print looked to be slightly lower in contrast  (I
should say that the printer settings I used are ICM under Win 2000, printing
from Photoshop 5.5, PCM - as close as possible to the 1270 settings).
Second, some strong orangey yellows in the picture looked slightly more
lemony in colour in the 2000P print.

Next, I printed the same image on the semigloss paper.  Initial impressions
are excellent - now this is very nice paper, and gave a better print, with
more contrast, and less lemony yellows, than the archival matte print. The
colours look very natural, albeit very slightly (and I do mean just
slightly) less saturated than the 1270 print. If you look at the print
surface at an angle, the printed section looks a little more shiny -
presumably because the pigmented inks rest on the surface of the paper.

As for resolution, I can so far see no discernable difference between the
2000P and the 1270 prints (naked eye only).

I really have only had time for a few hors with the 2000P, but I hope to
give it a whirl sometime tommorrow.
--
QDB
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