Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., "TerryR" <terryr1028@h...> 
wrote:
> Martin,
> 
> It would be interesting to see the 10000 comparison as I understand 
> they went down to 3 picoliters on the droplet. I would need to 
check, 
> but I think the 7x00 has a slightly smaller droplet than the 
> 5000/9x00. Also the newer 5500 has the smaller 3 picoliter droplet, 
> so it should be as good as the 12x0 series printers.

Terry,

It would indeed be interesting to see what you get for your $10,000 
which I think is the selling price of the 10000. Hmmm..
> 
> The slightly coarser look of the 7000 and up probably wouldn't be 
> noticeable do to the size prints these were designed to make. I 
keep 
> thinking about a 7000 as the prices continue to drop at a rapid 
pace, 
> just not down to my "range" yet!<g>

Print is one thing but where to but it!! I would like the quality but 
I would be happier to have a 17" wide desktop printer with the same 
quality. Maybe that huge gap will be filled by something in the new 
C80 style now that the 3000 seems to be gone.

> 
> I noticed the same thing in my Spectratone sample prints. I have 
been 
> playing with both these and the color Wide Spectrums on a 1270 
doing 
> some beta testing (at the moment concentrating on the WS). I did 
> notice that the Spectratone inks responded better to using the 
> separation curves under RGB similiar to Pauls curves, I got 
> reasonably close. Maybe Allen will play with that idea using the 
> softproof method on the 3000 to help smooth the output.

When I last looked at his site it looked like he had gone in that 
direction with the 1200 unless I misinterpreted the workflow. 

Martin

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