Digital BW, The Print

Blog?

Well that's a useless amateur gadget website if I ever saw one, I guess he's trying to be funny or something. He sounds like a hobbyist.

That old HP model, not an art printer by any means, has nothing to do with the Z series and is kind of like comparing the first Epson 9000s to the 9900. Having said that it was more successful than what Epson  or Canon offered for the graphics industry at that time. Not even related really to the Z series though, its an apples and oranges comparison and pretty much useless. Big corporations do all kinds of bizarre things, especially Epson, HP, and Microsoft. They all make way too many products that end up as a dead end line.

However, HP did produce the first really permanent high gamut highly stable outdoor pigment inks that were encapsulated with a uv resin. They beat the hell out of Ultrachrome.

j 

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "ClaytonJ" <cj@...> wrote:
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> Mike Johnston at his T.O.P. blog has just posted, in his usual entertaining style, an article called "The Trouble with Recommendations" in which he describes his frustrating experience with an HP pigment printer and says HP has discontinued it's mid-line pigment-ink printers and wonders if they are retiring from that segment of the market.
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> It's a good read, here's the link
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>  http://tinyurl.com/3xdpm7
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> Regards,
> Clayton
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> Info on black and white digital printing at    
> http://www.cjcom.net/digiprnarts.htm
> I-Trak 2.1   http://www.cjcom.net/itrak.htm
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