Digital BW, The Print

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From: Jerry Olson [mailto:jerryolson@...] 
Sent: Thursday, December 26, 2002 11:20 AM
To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [Digital BW] Epson printer longevity


If you are using third party cheap inks, your printer will last longer 
than your prints!
 <snip> 

Certainly others on this list are way more knowledgeable than me about
print lengevity, so I can't offer any real informed comment on this
other than to say that I've been using 3'rd party ink from tonerbuys.com
for about a year and the colors are good and the prints have not faded
thus far.  But I view all inkjet prints as a convenience anyway, and I
mainly consider it a good way to proof digital images and create a
decent enlargement for non-archival use.  When I want color enlargements
for myself or my customers to display I order chemical prints from a lab
that specializes in wedding work, made on a Fuji Frontier.  They're
cheap and always of excellent quality.  My personal jury is still out on
what to do about the B&W digital images - that's why I've subscribed and
have been reading this list for a while.  Right now, I'm still inclined
to consider B&W film and chemical printing might still be the easiest
way to go for me (since I'm very experienced in that).  But I'm still
reading and hoping to find something fairly easy and convenient that
many people agree on that will produce the quality I am used to from
traditional chemical fiber prints.

Thanks,
Ed
http://lightandsilver.com <http://lightandsilver.com/>  





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