Digital BW, The Print

Barry 
The Canon inks were upgraded about a year ago to pigmented. Canon actually sent every registered owner a full set of carts ( no charge) to replace the dye based inks that they discontinued, they also posted new drivers based on the new inks. New inks and drivers fired up smoothly--no problems.
Durability ??? I use mine at home and so far it seems fine (I also had a older color Canon at work that didn't do to well in a business environment.) Under the hood my Canon BJC-8200 looks as well made as any of my Epson's. Scitex chose the larger model Canon BJC-8500 to use as a offset printing proofer device and Heidelberg includes one as a proofer on their 4 color DI presses. None of the people I deal with in the offset printing world has ever complained about the Canon so I think the reliability issue is solved. I just purchased a new S9000 Canon (13 x 19) and will be setting it up this weekend and will be taking my older BJC-8200 (8.5 x 11) to the office to output PDF's for my sales staff to use -- I'll put it through some work related tests of durability.
Don
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Barry Kelsall 
  To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com 
  Sent: Saturday, April 20, 2002 12:24 PM
  Subject: Re: [Digital BW] Canon printers


  Don, how is their durability? As I said, my experiences are dated. Will the
  bubblejet design work with pigment inks? I haven't kept up with Canon
  printers. The BJC600 was only 300 dpi, if I remember. 


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