Digital BW, The Print

Nij,

For some reason I was thinking that it was a 17" printer. I haven't 
looked at the specs in a long. I would certainly rather have the 
17x??? capabilty.

I never see anything on the 1520 so I figured there was probably a 
good or actually bad reason.

I am not a volume printer and don't mind hand loading sheets one at a 
time so that would be okay for me on the 3000.

Thanks for the info.

Martin

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., "Nij" <nigel@m...> wrote:
> Martin,
> 
> You probably already know this, but: although it's able to handle 
the larger
> paper size (A2 from meory) the same as the 3000... my understanding 
is that
> the 1520 can not actually print anything like the width of that 
paper. I
> struggle to imagine why Epson thought that was a great design idea! 
The 1520
> is also reputed to be harder to fit with a CIS, for various reasons
> including a suggestion that perhaps the head was not powerful 
enough to pull
> ink through one, and with hassles over fooling the printer that you 
have
> 'changed cart's. Having said all that, I've seen a recent 
resurgence of
> posts on the Epson list about 1520's, and people are clearly still 
using
> them.
> 
> My guess is that the 3000 is the more 'business like' of the two... 
though I
> have seen more posts than you can shake a stick at about how the
> paper-feeding is unreliable etc (and that is _colour_ users of <no
> particular inkset>). I suspect they were users expecting a printer 
they
> wouldn't even have to hand-load sheets - it just seems to be one of 
those
> learning-curve things. But it seems like the later Piezo driver 
upgrades did
> do really good stuff for most 3000 users.
> 
> Not the hands on reply you wanted, but a reasonably useful 
compilation of
> information, I hope.
> 
> Nij
> 
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Martin Wesley [mailto:mwesley250@e...]
> <snip>
> >
> > I don't hear much about the 1520. Is this a viable alternative to 
the
> > 3000?
> >
> <snip>