Digital BW, The Print

--- Peter McLennan <peter@v...> wrote:
> Anybody know the difference between an 880 and an 890?  I bought an 
>880 from a photo printing supply place because they said it was 
>virtually the same mechanism as an 1160.  Printing and head-
>cleaning, it sounds identical. 

Hi Peter
I have been using the 880 for about a month now with great results. 
The major difference I think is that the 880 does not have a "chip" 
on the ink cart and the 890 does. Overall it (880) seems fast, quiet 
and no banding. I'm using the MIS VM ink set and have been able to 
work somewhat with Paul Roarks curves for the Epson 3000. And have 
worked up some of my own curves, by eye, sorry no densitometer 
available. I have used only MIS inks since starting up this printer 
and have not had to do any head cleaning(knock on wood. I'm running 
this on PC, PS 6.0.1 various papers.
Good luck
Don