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A different print exchange....

2002-09-02 by André Vallejo

Aside from the usual print exchange that goes here,I was thinking of
something different. There are now so many different combinations of
ink,paper,printer and software,that it\ufffds very hard for most of us now to
evaluate what's "better". So my idea is:
Someone chooses a representative image and upload it to the list archive.
All those who participate download it and print it with a certain
combination. Variables could be:

Inks: MIS VM,VM-Sepia and FS,Piezo in various flavors.
Printers: 1160,1280,3000 and it's little sisters (like the 980)
Paper: Maybe here we should stick to EAM only,otherwise the number of
combination will grow wild.
Drivers: Epson,Imageprint and Piezo.

So that we can stop wondering about differences and see for ourselves. Sure
that who is printing will still be an uncontrolled variable,but there are
limits to this idea...

Any ideas about this and how to improve and implement it?

Andr\ufffd Vallejo

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