Hi Drime;
The R800 is a very good choice for a first printer, for the reasons
you stated and also because it will do glossy prints with out some
of the surface reflectance problems that pigments usually produce on
gloss and semi-gloss papers. It does that with the gloss optimizer
(which we have reduced to 'glop') which fills in gaps in the gloss
and evens out the reflectance. MIS does indees produce an R800
equivalent set of pigments, but their glop did not produced quite as
high a gloss as the Epson, so they have temporarily pulled the
entire set until they can formulate a good replacement. It should be
avilable again before too long.
Steve Karafyllakis
--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Kelsang Drime"
<kdrime@h...> wrote:
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>
> Greetings,
>
> Thank you for your patience as I'm sure this has been asked
before. I
> searched the archives and didn't find a suitable reply. So here
goes.
>
> I have returned to photoghraphy after a 25 year hiatus. Things have
> changed! I have a nikon D70 and want to relearn B&W and therefore
need
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> a printer. The Epson R800 looks good to me as it will make archival
> quality prints and is not too costly. Would like to use a MIS
> continuous flow system to keep costs down. Their site says "under
> construction" when I did a search for R800. Dunno what that means.
>
> Am I on the right track?
>
> Thanks - just discovered this forum today.
>
> Drime