Digital BW, The Print

Richard;

My first printer was an Alps 5000, a brand that is no longer imported 
into the US; It was a thermal transfer printer, with the inks on 
ribbons like a typewriter. It had silver, gold, and metallic CMY carts, 
though the driver omly allowed you to use them as 'spot'  (solid 
fields) colors. I got some very interesting results when I started 
switching bar-code labels and substituting metallics for regular colors.
There was one major drawback, and I'm sure the main reason they got 
beat out of the US market-the printer laid down a visibly mechanical 
looking dither pattern that made it useless for fine-art printing. 
really too bad, it would print on damn near anything, much cheaper to 
run that an inkjet.

Steve Karafyllakis

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Richard Nagle 
<cms01@t...> wrote:
> 
> Well, I have been thinking of purchasing a good B&W photo printer,
> are there any out there that use a silver base color with blacks and
> grey’s?
> 
> or which one does the best for 8x10,12 and 11x14 ?
> 
> Thanks -
> Richard