Digital BW, The Print

From what i understand, the Roland has 8 inks, adding green and orange (hexchrome) to make up the gamut that their inks can't hit that the
6color epson's can. (if you want to listen to some sales pitches from a competitor)--  otherwise it is the same head as the epson, if not the
head from the 9500. several companies use the epson heads if it's piezo.

i liked some things I heard about the HP 5000, until I saw the results from output at PMA. They have thermal heads, and of course make their
own. Now colorspan uses the same HP heads, and their prints look better... and offer 12 colors.. but at the show they were only running 4
colors.. also had an inkset running blacks.. in the same machine. go figure what they were thinking?

The Mamiki does the same thing.. they have 12 inks.. (and use the epson 10000 heads) supposedly to hit the 6c twice, but an idea is to use the
machine as one set of 6c pigments, and another set using quad blacks... the machine costs $22K.. maybe it is better to just buy 2 10000's. <g>

Mark MacKinnon
New York


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   Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2002 14:58:14 -0800
   From: "Paul Roark" <paul.roark@...>
Subject: RE: Wondering

Greg,

I have no direct experience with the Roland, but I got some sample prints
because I was interested in looking into it once.  The dots on the samples I
saw (a couple of years ago) where very large -- not in the same league as
the Epson printers most of us use.  Of course, things may have changed a lot
in the last year or so.

I think most of the big-format printers designed for outdoor signage, etc.,
use large, pure pigments.  If so, then the whole system is probably not
geared to the Epson viscousity standards that the quad inksets are geared
to.

Bottom line -- see samples and get a lot more information before you spend
the money on that printer with the idea of printing desktop quad inksets.
However, 8 inks is very interesting.

Paul>>>>>>>