Digital BW, The Print

I have been planning to purchase an Epson 4800 after reading about the
improved BW results over my 2200.  Are any forum participants familiar
enough with the CANON IPF5000  to make a recommedation regarding BW
capability for this new printer and how it compares with the 4800?

My experience with QTR / Epson 2200 has been exceedingly positive. 
With the 4800, I believe I would have the option of using the Esposn
BW driver or QTR. Is this correct?  Can QTR be used with the CANON
IPF5000 ?

Alan Kushnir

QTR works on the Epson raster language so there is no way that they
can support the Canon in the near future. 

I was deciding between the 4800 and 5000 a few weeks ago and settled
on the 4800 (retiring both the R800 for colour and 1270-UT2 for B/W).
The 4800 is available now (I walked into my local dealer and it is in
my truck 15 mins later), cheaper and well tested. You can find paper
profiles for the 4800 easily from all paper manufacturers and I think
this is a very big deal. Another is learning curve, there is very
little learning curve if you have used any epson printers. I need to
deliver my prints and couldn't afford to wait for stock and experiment
settings / papers / profiles.

From the very few reviews of the 5000 so far, there seems to be very
little advantage on the Canon except MK/PK change and speed (but the
best quality may only equal to the lower quality setting of the
Epson.. so I don't really know if this is an advantage at all..) And
the current generation of Epson is "fast enough" since I can only work
so fast on Photoshop anyway before I processed the next print. Also I
am just going to stick with PK using mostly luster/kirkland paper and
will start to experiment with the innova gloss soon. 

- M

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "alankushnir"
<akushnir@...> wrote:

>
> I have been planning to purchase an Epson 4800 after reading about the
> improved BW results over my 2200.  Are any forum participants familiar
> enough with the CANON IPF5000  to make a recommedation regarding BW
> capability for this new printer and how it compares with the 4800?
> 
> My experience with QTR / Epson 2200 has been exceedingly positive. 
> With the 4800, I believe I would have the option of using the Esposn
> BW driver or QTR. Is this correct?  Can QTR be used with the CANON
> IPF5000 ?
> 
> Alan Kushnir
>

On Friday 16 June 2006 09:54, Michael Hung wrote:
> QTR works on the Epson raster language so there is no way that they
> can support the Canon in the near future.

I thought QTR talked to gimp-print (now gutenprint) rather than
speaking Epson raster language directly.  If that's the case, QTR
could theoretically work with any printer supported by gutenprint.

I don't see the iPF5000 listed as supported by gutenprint, but
since gutenprint is open-source, I wouldn't be surprised if it
were supported someday.

But it would probably also take quite a bit of QTR tweaking to
make it work, and that's not so likely because few people (relative
to the universe of gutenprint users) are interested and knowledgeable
enough.