Digital BW, The Print

Ernst,

Thank you very much for your help, I am not worrying
anymore. My neighbors are forewarned and some of them,
who are strong enough, shall help me to haul this thing
into my basement.

To be continued.

Kemal

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Ernst Dinkla wrote:

>Kemal Delic wrote:
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>>Ernst,
>>
>>Would you sell your Epson 9000 just because of sharpness
>>difference? I compared the tests on: 
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>> http://harrington.com/dotscans/dotsdots.html 
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>>and I couldn't se the difference between Epson 7500/9000 and
>>Epson 7600.
>>
>>This week I am going  to pick up a very little used Epson 9000.
>>It shall cost me 7500 swedish kronas ( $1000 ),  including my
>>petrol costs. I want to use it for quadtone printing. I am worrying
>>now, am I doing something wrong?
>>
>>Regards,
>>Kemal
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>Kemal,
>
>Nothing to worry about.  But be careful with the ink change that 
>no dye/UT contamination happens.
>
>First of all it isn't my 9000 and my 9600.  I am happy with my 
>9000 loaded with UT VM and the way I can drive it now with the 
>Wasatch SoftRIP and I'm expecting even better results with Qimage 
>+ QTR.  My customers love the results so far. I have no 9600 
>either and do not intend to buy one, instead I have bought a 
>secondhand 10000 for color.
>
>My friend has far more work and used to print with three 9000's. 
>He now has two 9600's + one 9000 converted to UT VM.
>The last was only used with Paul's curves from PhotoShop and not 
>yet with QTR + Qimage so he hasn't compared output of the 9600 
>with the same driver as he used on the 9600. It could well be 
>that the 9000 performs as good or better with QTR but then he has 
>two printers for that kind of work while the need for B&W doesn't 
>require more than one. It isn't clear yet what he will do but he 
>still has the two other 9000's with color inks that aren't used 
>often either. More of a luxury problem.
>
>So a completely different situation to mine or yours and not yet 
>based on a checked quality difference either.
>
>The price you're paying is nice if I compare it to a 9000 sold 
>here not long ago. 2000 Euro, but that one had one of my CIS 
>systems on it.
>
>Ernst
>