Digital BW, The Print

From experience it uses 89ml of ink to switch blacks.  The engineer you
spoke to has got it seriously wrong.


> From: jamesdsteele2001 <photographybysteele@...>
> Reply-To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
> Date: Fri, 01 Jul 2005 19:19:44 -0000
> To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
> Subject: Re: [Digital BW] more 4800 first impressions
> 
> Several weeks ago I attended a presentation by Epson on the 4800 among other
> things.  I 
> specifically asked an Epson field engineer about the allegations that it was
> so expensive to 
> switch inks.  He said it shouldn't take more than 10-15ml of ink to switch on
> the 4800 
> because it involved only the black and the line was relatively short.
> 
> I tend to believe that something is amiss.  Surely Epson is capable of giving
> an accurate 
> answer about how much ink is lost in the switch.  Epson should respond to this
> subject.
> 
> Jim