Digital BW, The Print

I've been using an Epson 875 and 780.  I have found a factory refurb 1280 for a good price and trying to decide whether I should wait for announcements (1280's are OS almost everywhere--and it is that time of year) or bite the bullet and buy this one.  I'm planning on making one a dedicated b/w printer--not sure if this will be the 875 or the 1280.  But--since I would imagine almost everyone on this list is an owner of at least one Epson---what would you do??--Buy now---or wait.  I keep trying to decide what could be announced--the 1280 is so terrific now--maybe smaller droplets?  Anything else??

Diane
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Diane B. Fields
picnic@...
photo site    http://www.pbase.com/picnic


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I'm in the same boat Diane.  I recently converted my 1270 to MIS VM hextones
and now need another printer for color.  There were some 1280s in stock,
briefly, about a week ago at Buycom and PC Connection, but now I can't find
any.  I'll probably wait until after PMA next month before I make a
decision.  In the meantime, I'm happily printing beautiful B&W with the VM
inks.

Carl

From: "Diane Fields" <picnic@...>
Reply-To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2002 21:00:38 -0500
To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
Subject: [Digital BW] should I wait --or buy


I've been using an Epson 875 and 780.  I have found a factory refurb 1280
for a good price and trying to decide whether I should wait for
announcements (1280's are OS almost everywhere--and it is that time of year)
or bite the bullet and buy this one.  I'm planning on making one a dedicated
b/w printer--not sure if this will be the 875 or the 1280.  But--since I
would imagine almost everyone on this list is an owner of at least one
Epson---what would you do??--Buy now---or wait.  I keep trying to decide
what could be announced--the 1280 is so terrific now--maybe smaller
droplets?  Anything else??

Diane
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Diane B. Fields
picnic@...
photo site    http://www.pbase.com/picnic


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Diane-

I'm making the same decisions... PMA will have something announced... 
it may not make any difference, but I thought I'd wait to see what... 
It's not primarily the printer cost... The space for another printer, 
the CIS system... Etc. 

The downside of waiting is you don't get to start using the 1280 
tomorrow and it's a pretty great printer.

Tom O'Connell

TomOC@...
www.thomasoconnell.com


--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., "Diane Fields" 
<picnic@c...> wrote:
> I've been using an Epson 875 and 780.  I have found a factory 
refurb 1280 for a good price and trying to decide whether I should 
wait for announcements (1280's are OS almost everywhere--and it is 
that time of year) or bite the bullet and buy this one.  I'm planning 
on making one a dedicated b/w printer--not sure if this will be the 
875 or the 1280.  But--since I would imagine almost everyone on this 
list is an owner of at least one Epson---what would you do??--Buy now-
--or wait.  I keep trying to decide what could be announced--the 1280 
is so terrific now--maybe smaller droplets?  Anything else??

> 
> Diane
> ----------
> Diane B. Fields
> picnic@c...
> photo site    http://www.pbase.com/picnic
> 
> 
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

In a message dated 1/20/2002 8:57:54 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
picnic@... writes:


> what would you do??--Buy now---or wait.  I keep trying to decide what could 
> be announced--the 1280 is so terrific now--maybe smaller droplets?  
> Anything else??
> 

If you are going to dedicate the printer to b&w, I'm assuming you are going 
to use the Cone rip. If thats the case, it really doesn't matter, since his 
software takes the printer places where it has never gone before.
And if that is indeed the case, it will take some time for Cone Editions to 
write a new rip for whatever printer might come out  shortly. If they decide 
to support it.
So that leaves one waiting for months for a maybe.
George J Kunze


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