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Color Printers
I don't agree with Ilfochrome being the best color printing process. In the fine art
circles dye color transfer prints (not to be confused with "thermal dye color
transfer", another name for dye sublimation) are considered to be vastly superior.
-- Quang-Tuan Luong, November 10, 1997
I realize that there are expensive printers out there, but my experience has been
limited to those under $700. I've had several generations of Epson (Stylus II to the
600), as well as a few cannons, but the most fabulous prints I have managed have
come from the Alps MD2300 Photographic printer. Printing an image taken from
this site I had trouble convincing "joe/jane on the street" that it wasn't a real
photograph. The colors are vivid, rich and continuous with a clear overcoat. I've
had a photo hanging in a sun facing window for 6 mo. that looks the same as it's
contol photo in an album. It's a great printer wich doubles as a high qaulity B/W
printer for text (1200dpi). You need special paper and ink carts for photo, but it's
worth it. This printer will aslo print metallic (yellow, cyan, magenta, silver) onto
the photos if you desire. It's been called dated and obsolete compared to the new
inkjets, but as for now I'll take it any day.
-- Danno --, December 25, 1997
Does anyone remember what color prints looked like in the 1950's? The vast
improvement in quality which we are so furtunate to have access to, took many
years to produce. Modern desktop inkjet printers, such as the Epson Stylus series,
use a technology only a few years old, and yet they are capable of producing
outstanding quality.
I can scan a photo with poor color, work on it in Photoshop, and print out a much
improved copy using My Epson Stylus Color II, and premium inkjet paper, which
now only costs about 10 cents per sheet! (glossy is about 70 cents).
Anyone willing to spend the time learning how to properly use these relatively
inexpensive desktop printers can produce excellent photos, and easily redo them in
whichever way suits them.
We don't need to pit film technology against digital; I love being part of the digital
revolution in photography, yet I have no plans to abandon my 35mm equipment.
They both belong, in their own rites.
-- Gary Robertshaw, December 31, 1997
i have seen test-prints of all 3/4 alps-printers such as md 2010=md4000 without 24
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