Digital BW, The Print

Hi Sam;

I haven't even tried the 'Grayscale' option on the 260-that's right, 
it reads 'grayscale' which doesn't sound promising. For color, on the 
new Costco, I'm getting excellent results after profiling: nice clean 
colors that are life-like without being oversaturated. HOWEVER: Epson 
has really done it this time: It's a whole new cartridge, and the 
chip has two extra contacts, so you're stuck with Epson inks for a 
while. Scuttlebut is, there's a pair of wires going into the cart, 
maybe a crude sensor of some sort. Newegg.com has the best prices on 
ink so far. My advice is, if you're looking for cheap mass quantity 
printing, pick up a refurbed 220 or 340 while you still can.

Steve Karafyllakis

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Sam McCandless 
<samcc@...> wrote:
>
> I don't know anything about the paper Steve is curious about, but 
I  
> am eager to know Steve's and others' impressions of Epson's new  
> printers and their new "Claria" inks, partly because they sound 
good  
> for business cards, envelopes, postcards and notecards, 
especially,  
> at least for me, if they print black-only.
> 
> Thanks.
> --
> Sam
> 
> 
> On Nov 8, 2006, at 10:36 PM, Steven Karafyllakis wrote:
> 
> > I found myself staring at the boxes of Costco paper a couple days
> > ago...they still had a couple boxes of the old stuff which I use 
for
> > color proofing, but being faced with profiling a new R260 I went 
with
> > the new paper so I wouldn't have to do it again when i did 
switch, and
> > have been pleasantly surprised. It was easier to get good color 
out  
> > of,
> > prints well with pigs, and has a nicer surface than the old 
paper.  
> > With
> > MIS inks it has a LOT of gloss differential, it needs coating. I'm
> > getting a dmax of 2.28 uncoated, 2.38 with Premier, and 2.58 with 
MIS
> > glop. Even though Premier doesn't give the most dmax boost, the  
> > surface
> > gloss and texture with it is quite pleasing, and very 'ADFB' in
> > character. I'll start a south-window test tomorrow, but in the
> > meantime, does anyone know anything more about this stuff?
> >
> > Steve Karafyllakis
> 
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