Digital BW, The Print

Antonis,

As architects we have used HP printers for many years. I will tell you that
they are build like tanks and require very little service. When I was
considering the HP 5000 vs. the ESP 10000 a few months ago I opted to
purchase the 10000 for a couple of reasons. First the quality of the HP 5000
is equal to the Epson 9000/9500. The Epson 10000 print qualty exceeds the HP
5000 and Epson 9000. Second, the HP 5000 does not have a straight through
paper path. Using sheets like Hahnemuhle William Turner, Torchon, and German
Etching Board is near impossible. Using roll paper becomes imperative.
Sheets are too stiff and get runied in the 5000.

The good part is that the HP LF inks are excellent. They have wonderful
gamut, superior life with virtually no fade, and I hear metamerism is all
but non-existent. I have a small HP 1280 desktop printer in the office.
Believe it or not, I get a fairly neutral grayscale from this machine using
color inks with no observable crossover. HP photo quality printer produce
very smooth images. The neat thing about the 1280 is that when I get
banding, it means the cartridge is about to run out of ink. I buy a new
cartridge which comes with a new print head and away we go. HP desktop
printers have the print head in the cartridge.

Mike


----- Original Message -----
From: "antonisphoto" <antonisphoto@...>
To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Friday, February 15, 2002 12:00 PM
Subject: [Digital BW] Epson vs HP for fine art bw???


> Hello all,
>
> I just stumbled across the details for a Milton Greene exhibit in the UK.
> Apparently these are bw ( and color ) prints that were printed on
Hahnemuhle
> papers (on whose site I read this). But the surprise is that they were
done on
> an HP printer.
>
> Are we too entrenched in the Epson camp to notice other printers? Does
> anyone have pluses and minuses for HPs and other alternatives?
>
> Here is an excerpt:
> >>>Having taken hours of digital retouching in some cases, Joshua Greene
> has found a solution for outputting these prints onto Hahnemuhle Digital
Fine
> Art papers using the Hewlett Packard Designjet 5000PS printer, which with
its
> UV inks combined with the Hahnemuhle media will last up to 200 years, much
> longer than a traditional photograph.
> <<<
>
> more at:
> http://www.hahnemuhle.com/
> under "news".
>
> Any thoughts?  Nij?...
>
> Antonis
>
>
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