Re: which printer?

["Howard Averbach" <haverbach@libcom.com>]

<x-charset iso-8859-1>Jerry Olson wrote:

>>I was told the heads in the 2000P were of better quality than the 1270/80.
What is the high price of the 2000P for if its the same printer as the
others?  There must be something about it that's different.

Don't bet too much on that.  As often as not, prices are set by the seller's
perception of what the markert will bear -- and nothing else.  The identical
product may be packaged, marketed, and priced for the specific market.
Consider disposable contanct lenses, mattresses, and possibly OTT-LITEs.

A closeout 870 or 875 is now so cheap, that some enterprising person may
care to test this by utilizing a CIS system and Epson pigmented inks.

Hmmmmm!

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jerry Olson" <jerryolson@rrv.net>
To: <epson-inkjet@leben.com>
Sent: Wednesday, May 16, 2001 9:43 AM
Subject: Re: which printer?


> So this means you could use the pigmented epson ink in a CIS system in
> the 1270/80. (just decant it from the 7500 cartridges).
>
> I was told the heads in the 2000P were of better quality than the
> 1270/80. What is the high price of the 2000P for if its the same printer
> as the others? There must be something about it that's different.
>
> Jerry
>
>
>
>
> Bob Meyer wrote:
>
> > Jerry Olson wrote:
> > > >
> > > > The 2000P isn't based on the 1270, but the 7500,
> > > and 9500. The dots are
> > > > nowhere near as fine as the 1270 or 1280. Much
> > > more like the 1160. Colored
> > > > prints are brilliant, but you can't get acceptable
> > > black and white prints
> > > > with this printer.
> >
> > The only thing the 2000P has in common with the
> > 7500/9500 is that they all use encapsulated pigment
> > inks.  The 2000P is built on the same chassis, uses
> > the same case (except for color) and controls, the
> > same size ink carts (you can swap them between the two
> > models, although I doubt they'd work), the same
> > cartridge chps, etc.  Even the chip reset procedure
> > works on the 2000P.
> >
> > Other than heads and firmware, the 1270 and 2000P are
> > pretty much identical.
> >
> > =====
> > Bob Meyer
> > See my newly revised paper test web site:
> >
> > http://www.meyerweb.net/epson
> >
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