Digital BW, The Print

To confuse the issue even more- Epson is just now releasing 
the 'Photo 900' model, a letter size-A4 version of the 1280, (or an 
upgrade of the 890 depending on point of view) that takes the larger 
1280 color carts. That is a nice advantage if you are planning to 
use carts rather than a CIS. It also will print directly on to CDs 
through a straight-through paper path, which means it should have no 
problem at all with even the heaviest papers. In all other respects 
it looks to be identical to the 1280, so the curves should work, or 
at least might not take too much tweaking from Paul Roark. (Hi Paul, 
don't you just love how we all find new things for you to do?) Price 
for it is $200.00, and will probably be my next printer.

Steve Karafyllakis

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Bob Michaels" 
<bob@b...> wrote:
> Brian: 890 is the same as the 1280 but has a 8 1/2 x 11 max size. 
They
> were available direct from Epson refurbished for $150 recently.
> Refurbished is about the same as new. I have refurbished 890 (for
> color) & refurb 1280 (w/ MIS black inks). Love them both and either
> would do you well. 
> 
> Bob Michaels
> 
> --- In 
DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "brian_eddington"
> <belaw@b...> wrote:
> > Okay, so I naively thought that it would be easy to find the 
right 
> > printer for making B&W prints.  After reading on this subject 
for 
> > several hours I have a pounding headache. Although I now realize 
that 
> > this is a complicated subject, I'm going to just post this 
question 
> > and see if anyone steps up with a recommendation as to which 
printer 
> > I should buy! 
> > 
> > Here are my parameters: All images will be from an Olympus 5050, 
so 
> > max resolution is 2560x1920. I will not be printing anything 
larger 
> > than A4/8.5x11.  I plan on using MIS's quadtone or hextone inks 
(so 
> > I'm looking at Epson's), and I won't consider any printer unless 
> > importable color curves/work flows are available. 
> > 
> > At present I'm leaning toward the Epson 1280... but it is a 
little 
> > more printer than I need (larger paper size capacity than I will 
ever 
> > use, and I couldn't care less about borderless printing) and 
it's a 
> > bit pricey for the occasional use my printer will see. 
> > 
> > Can someone please- PLEASE- demystefy B&W printer options for 
> > me????????