Digital BW, The Print

Here is hoping for a large format R800 with Imageprint 6 support - 
that would mean just one printer necessary for all printouts - the 
gloss surface of the R800 is great.

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Ernst Dinkla" 
<E.Dinkla@c...> wrote:
> There are now more reviews of the R800:
> 
> http://www.redrivercatalog.com/infocenter/epsonr800.htm
> 
> http://www.photo-i.co.uk/
> 
> A quote from the last (page 2):
> >The print dot is almost invisible even under high magnification.
> If this were a 35mm film shot then the film grain would be larger
> than the print dot. The printer does not apply any sharpening to
> the image so what you see here is more or less what you get.<
> 
> Pity that there's no BO test included in the last review. The 1.5
> picolitre droplet asks for a test like that.  Normal B&W (with
> composite greys) isn't at the level of the Ultrachrome models
> with the light grey. Looks like a good test in total though.
> 
> Now we have to wait for the wide format model.
> 
> Ernst
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> 
> From: "Mike Botelho" <mfractl@h...>
> To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2003 11:19 PM
> Subject: [Digital BW] Re: The Epson R800 & B&W
> 
> 
> |
> | OK, to follow up on my own post, I found this comment from
> someone
> | who actually owns the PX-G900, which is the Japanese equivalent
> of
> | the R800 I mentioned:
> |
> |
> http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?
forum=1013&message=6402074
> |
> | One comment is hardly conclusive, but it at least supports my
> | suspicion that B&W might be improved.  This person indicated
> B&W
> | coparable to a 2200 with IP (no metamerism).  Though he did
> seem to
> | be printing in color, not BO as I was talking about.
> |
> | Anyway, that's enough about printers that aren't available yet.
> Back
> | to figuring out what I'm going to print with in the present.
> |
> | Mike