Digital BW, The Print

You know my favorite Epson printers around here are the two lightly used 24" 7000's I picked up  for almost free and turned into hextone printers. They take small sheets and rolls beautifully. What a joy for their  very first LF design, when engineers made them as apposed to sales reps. No retarded chips, so I use clear funnel fill carts and refill right in the printer. No bizarre head cleaning programs to suck ink. Heads and dampers are easily replaced even by someone like me. And with Studio Print and QTR grayscale they are  plenty fast too and perfectly fine dither control with better dmax than any later Epson machine. The printers were almost free and the inks I buy in pint bottles. But they are clamping down on all the spare parts and they are doing everything they can to eliminate this kind of thing from the face of the earth.

j





 Imagine that. Manual printers of the highest  
> quality for people who would normally tape over the paper-out sensors  
> and jam pen in front-door switch anyway. Who needs protected ink cart  
> empty circuits and the various electrical supplies that go with them?  
> Who  needs a freaking key-code protected printhead lock?
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