Digital BW, The Print

claudej1@... wrote:

>What is wrong with dedicating more than one printer to a specific task?
>
>These things are cheap, people. Get one or two with color dyes, one or two 
>with 3rd party pigments (one gloss and one matte black), and do the same with B&
>W printers.
>
>I know most of you can't justify "printers by the dozen," or the really big 
>ones, like some pros can, but for gosh sakes, get a printer dedicated solely to 
>B&W and quit trying to do it with color 
>inks................................digital double standard, indeed!!
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Agreed 100% Claude..

Perhaps someday an all-in-one printer will do perfect B&W and Perfect 
color across a range of glossy and matte, RC, cast, and uncoated media 
for a truly economic price.  But that day is NOT yet, not even nearly, 
here..  To complain that one printer doesn't  do it all and somehow the 
vendors are therefore failing is  a tad ridiculous..

It's like the arguments about the cost of PhotoShop and how printer X 
takes 10 minutes for a print. Sometimes we all need to step back and 
compare how mush faster, easier, and cheaper it is than the wet darkroom 
(and how  much newer this workflow/process is - progress has been 
staggering over what is really as short timeline).  Otherwise, we all, 
myself included, risk soon becoming just truculent whining complainers 
with little perspective on the big picture.

 
Keith Krebs

"Just some guy," caretaker of the Multiverse's largest EPSON printer 
User Community (highly recommended by Vogon Poets and MegaDodo 
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