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RE: [Digital BW] 9600, chip resetters

2002-11-18 by Tim Atherton

you might want to contact Norm Levy at Media Street and see how their chip
setter is coming along. All the standard printers are done - I think they
are working on large format printers?

http://www.mediastreet.com/cgi-bin/tame/mediastreet/ucr.tam?anchor=#top


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Tucker [mailto:mark@...]
> Sent: Monday, November 18, 2002 9:16 AM
> To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: [Digital BW] 9600, chip resetters
>
>
> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., "Jason DeFontes"
> <jason@d...> wrote:
> > You just need to go hang around outside Mark's studio. I think
> there's
> > going to be one flying out the window any day now...
> > -Jason
>
> --------------------------
>
> You might be right. Unless I have the patience to wait until after
> PMA in March, when you might see some third-party offerings
> from people who've busted the chip.
>
> Unless Epson sits up and recognizes some of the limitations of
> the Matte Black Ultrachrome, they're gonna have two or three
> smaller companies nipping at their heels.
>
> Until then, check out:
>
> http://www.qb7.com/
>
> After all my bellyaching, I might still actually consider a dye
> version of the 9600. I'm back to that age old question: is it better
> to have a print that looks great today, but that might fade in time,
> or one that's unexciting now, but you know that it'll remain
> consistently unexciting for decades to come?
>
> I come back to two visions:
> Dyes: Charcoal Blacks
> Pigments: Veiled Blacks
>
> MT
>
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