Digital BW, The Print

Disaster is a bit strong, but if you want the most professional results on a
wide variety of glossy papers, do not get a printer with pizza wheels.
In my limited trials with the 3800, the pizza marks I have seen so far
appear minor to me.  I need strong lighting for them to be obvious, and
other viewers have not noticed them in the print yet.
I don't see them at all on some Kirkland glossy targets that happen to be on
my desk right now.

Best regards,
John Moody

-----Original Message-----
From: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
[mailto:DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com]On Behalf Of David
Keenan
Sent: Saturday, December 23, 2006 4:38 PM
To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [Digital BW] Re: roller marks with 3800 (was: Re: Epson 3800 for
digital negative

>FYI. I did notice that when the dry time is 1 sec you don't even
>notice any pause, probably because it factors in the time from when it
>lays down the ink, not from when it finishes the line pass.

But hang on a sec. What does a one second dry time do to the overall time it
takes to have a finished print??? I don't give a rat's ass about perceivable
pauses, it is the overall print time that matters.

Seems like this kind of delay would increase the overall print time by
orders of magnitude. 20 minutes instead of five or something like that. This
is totally unacceptable. And ridiculous.

Any feedback on real world numbers with one or two second dry time?

If all this is really true then my desire to own a 3800 is disappearing
fast...

First the Leica M8 is a complete and absolute disaster for me -- is
lightning about to strike twice?
Someone tell me that the 3800 is not a looming disaster for printing on
glossy paper...

Dave.


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