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Re: [Digital BW] Digest Number 1687

2003-08-13 by Boris Wiedenfeld

I would love to hear comments by anyone who has tried this one out.  It looks a little like a consumer gadget printer but the 8 cartridge system does sound nice.

And I love hp quality.  If only my 1280 was as reliable as my hp laser jet after so many years ...  :)  (i know, that's not a fair comparison.)

cheers,

boris








Some comments made by Vincent Oliver in the forum section of 
<http://www.photo-i.co.uk/>

"The HP 7960 b/w prints are the best you will see anywhere; no cast, 
no metamerism and 73 years+ life. I'm sure an A3 printer is in the 
pipeline. HP also has the HP Designjet 120 printer, an A2+ printer. 
This uses six inks and produces some excellent colours, I will try to 
get hold of one for review."

"B/W has been totally addressed, now you can have 4097 shades of true 
grey, compared to 17 shades on a normal six ink printer, the other 
shades of grey are made up from a combination of coloured inks, 
that's why you get colour cast's. Metamerism is also a thing of the 
past, in our tests we could barely see any change of colour and we 
used several light sources."


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