Digital BW, The Print

Oh boy, you aren't going to be printing those images from that cheap
Konica rangefinder 
are you???  (I'm still jealous, I want one!).

How ya doing Barret? Haven't seen you in a while. Shoot me an email
and let's have a beer!

Jon
Ft. Greene

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Barrett Benton" 
<bwbenton@b...> wrote:
> 
> So, there's this Epson 3000 up for sale locally (but, to 
> paraphrase Woody Gutherie, I'm not saying which locality).  
> According to the owner, it's seen some miles.  The heads likely 
> need cleaning.  A few of the feed tubes to the print head could 
> likely use replacement.  But it likely has an ethernet card in it 
> already (a fairly big deal if confirmed).  And, it's cheap.
_Really_ 
> cheap.
> 
> I'll likely check it out tomorrow.  I may, in fact, have enough
> pocket  money to pick it up and call a car service to drag it home 
> if I'm feeling lucky.  The thing is, I've rarely dealt with any
Epson 
> larger than 13", and this would be the first I've ever owned.  I 
> know the specs (the owner warned me about the limitations of 
> four-color printers for "critical" color photo work, and was quite 
> intrigued when I told him I wanted it for quad work).  What I want 
> to know is: what should I be looking out for with a beastie like 
> this?  In a worst-case scenario, what's the average tab for head 
> replacement, should it come to that?  Given how cheap I'd be 
> getting it for, I can deal with sinking a few hundred more in the 
> thing to get it "right" if necessary (cheap compared to, say,
laying 
> out for a 4000), but I'd like the lay of the land regarding
rollers, 
> feed mechanisms, etc.  I've had great luck with my 1160, which I 
> bought used (and keep on a steady diet of Lyson Quad Black 
> Neutral), and this would be a chance to go bigger for relatively 
> cheap.
> 
> - Barrett