Digital BW, The Print

> Speed is not a big issue for me. Is there any reason to choose a 1290s 
> over the 1270? The difference in price is about $200-300
The driver for the 1270 has 1440 as the highest resolution setting. At
it happens I never use higher on my 1290. However, that there are
several recommendations to use 2880, so there may be some
circumstances where it would be useful to have a 1290.  I just don't
know them.  I'm always a bit sceptical when, in either printers or
scanners, the resolution in one dimension exceeds that in the
orthogonal dimension by more than a factor of two.  I doubt that it is
meaningful to have 2880x720 "resolution".  It probably puts down more
ink than 1440x720.  I've never seen a lack of ink with my 1270s at 1440.
Perhaps the 1270 is disappearing by now.  I see none on UK ebay today,
nor even worldwide, so perhaps my suggestion is not very helpful. 

Ken