Digital BW, The Print

On 19/12/2007 Josh Hackney wrote:
> Just remember that the grass on the other side of the fence is 
> sometimes . .
> . just grass. Despite the constant gripes we all have about Epson, 
> the HP
> and Canon offerings haven't been around long, and I imagine that they 
> are
> both still scrambling to build the infrastructure needed to support 
> their
> new products. This link was posted on this forum recently. I'm 
> reposting
> it, not to criticize HP in any way - I'm thrilled there there is now 
> some
> competition, but just as a reminder that the latest and greatest can 
> still
> be fraught with problems. Note in the reader comments, that there are 
> other
> problems out there too.
> 
> http://photomusings.wordpress.com/2007/11/30/hp-z3100-support-woes/
> 

Thanks Josh, that is exactly the sort of real-life horror I was hoping to 
learn about. If HP US support is that awful, HP UK will for sure be much 
worse - and of course the printer itself costs more here too. It's bad 
enough when cheap kit is a PITA, unthinkable at this price level.

I've also belatedly found long discussions of paper feed issues and 
gamut/profiling problems (which may have been resolved in firmware 
upgrades). A shame 'cos the z3100 B&W's I saw were the closest to good wet 
process prints I have ever seen.

-- 
Regards

Tony Sleep
http://tonysleep.co.uk