Digital BW, The Print

John Hollenberg wrote:
> I decided to throw my Canon IPF5000 into the mix.  It came out a
> distant third for two reasons:
> 
> 1) There is a bit of graininess which IS visible to the naked eye (you
> have to look close, but it is definitely there.  Don't know yet
> whether this is due to the nature of the Canon printer, or something
> isn't right with my print head.  The latter is a definite possibility,
> because I have seen some very odd looking numbers for the auto head
> alignment.  Tech support assured me that it was OK, but now I am not
> so sure, since I see an actual anomaly.

I think that almost all the Photokina visitors that wrote 
about the 3 manufacturer's prints concluded that the Canon was 
slightly grainier. Not problematic but slightly grainier. If 
one compares the droplet size of the printers then the Canon's 
4 pl isn't really bigger than Epson's 3.5 pl, the same size as 
HP's 4 pl (lc, lm, lg, pK,E, G) and smaller than the 6 pl of 
the rest of the HP inks. There something in Canon's dithering 
that is different.


Met vriendelijke groeten,Ernst


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