Digital BW, The Print

I'll try to be as concise as possible, and I appreciate any help I 
can get. I am considering purchasing the Epson 3000. I don't have 
the money at the moment to buy a larger printer, and the 3000 will 
allow me to print up to 16 x 20. I once had a B&W dark room & I have 
a body of work that I processed and printed myself. I no longer have 
the dark room, but I have been selling 8 x 10 prints on eBay. I have 
had requests for larger prints. I have also had many requests for 
new work. That is why I am considering buying the 3000. Most of my 
work is B&W, but will be selling some color prints also. Quite a few 
of the originals were made from infra-red film and some from a 4 x 6 
format. My new work will be with the 4 x 6 camera for now as my 35mm 
finally gave up the ghost. Any suggestions or advice would be great, 
as I want to purchase the printer within the next few days. 
Thank you much in advance.
Vicki/DreamingStarseed

I have a 3000, and I wouldn't recommend it for color work. The dot size is
just too large to really look photographic compared to the more up-to-date
printers. Even non technical people will notice it. For BW quadtone work,
it's fantastic, but can be finniky. They often don't work well with heavier
papers. I've only been able to really get good results with the PhotoRag
188. The thicker paper exhibits too much banding and with big prints tends
to pull off to one side while printing. I also find the Piezo driver makes
smoother prints with less banding than other methods I've tried, but this is
probably a subject of great debate around here.

Also, using it for color and BW isn't a very practical solution, as it takes
an ink flush to change systems, which can get time consuming and very
expensive. If you need one printer for BW and color you might want to look
into the 2200, but I'm not much of an expert on that.

-Steve

On 5/2/03 9:25 PM, "dreamingstarseed" <dreamingstarseed@...>
wrote:

> I'll try to be as concise as possible, and I appreciate any help I
> can get. I am considering purchasing the Epson 3000. I don't have
> the money at the moment to buy a larger printer, and the 3000 will
> allow me to print up to 16 x 20.

Be very, very aware that there are "good" and "bad" 3000 printers. Don't
know why, but the "good" ones seem to work wonderfully (we have one of
those) and the "bad" ones band and throw paper out and require constant
fiddling (we have one of those also.) The "bad" 3000 has been through a
head transplant and major surgery by our Epson service center (this is a
"good" service group) to no avail.
There is no way to differentiate them until they begin behaving badly.

-----Original Message-----
From: dreamingstarseed [mailto:dreamingstarseed@...] 
Sent: Friday, May 02, 2003 10:51 PM
To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [Digital BW] Newbie here -- considering buying the Epson 3000

I'll try to be as concise as possible, and I appreciate any help I 
can get. I am considering purchasing the Epson 3000. I don't have 
the money at the moment to buy a larger printer, and the 3000 will 
allow me to print up to 16 x 20. I once had a B&W dark room & I have 
a body of work that I processed and printed myself. I no longer have 
the dark room, but I have been selling 8 x 10 prints on eBay. I have 
had requests for larger prints. I have also had many requests for 
new work. That is why I am considering buying the 3000. Most of my 
work is B&W, but will be selling some color prints also. Quite a few 
of the originals were made from infra-red film and some from a 4 x 6 
format. My new work will be with the 4 x 6 camera for now as my 35mm 
finally gave up the ghost. Any suggestions or advice would be great, 
as I want to purchase the printer within the next few days. 
Thank you much in advance.
Vicki/DreamingStarseed



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I was looking at the 2200, but from what I saw, you cannot print out 
a 16 x 20. Is there a printer that would print out up to 16 x 20 in 
either B&W or color?



--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Steve German 
<sgphotographics@e...> wrote:
> I have a 3000, and I wouldn't recommend it for color work. The dot 
size is
> just too large to really look photographic compared to the more up-
to-date
> printers. Even non technical people will notice it. For BW 
quadtone work,
> it's fantastic, but can be finniky. They often don't work well 
with heavier
> papers. I've only been able to really get good results with the 
PhotoRag
> 188. The thicker paper exhibits too much banding and with big 
prints tends
> to pull off to one side while printing. I also find the Piezo 
driver makes
> smoother prints with less banding than other methods I've tried, 
but this is
> probably a subject of great debate around here.
> 
> Also, using it for color and BW isn't a very practical solution, 
as it takes
> an ink flush to change systems, which can get time consuming and 
very
> expensive. If you need one printer for BW and color you might want 
to look
> into the 2200, but I'm not much of an expert on that.
> 
> -Steve
> 
> On 5/2/03 9:25 PM, "dreamingstarseed" <dreamingstarseed@t...>
> wrote:
> 
> > I'll try to be as concise as possible, and I appreciate any help 
I
> > can get. I am considering purchasing the Epson 3000. I don't have
> > the money at the moment to buy a larger printer, and the 3000 
will
> > allow me to print up to 16 x 20.