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Color Printers
And remember, no matter what your output device, the results will look better with
a nice wide white matte!
-- Ben Jackson, August 6, 1998
Ben,
They do have a printer in your price range that provides excellent quality,
photographic output. The Epson Photo Stylus. You can get one in the $300 and less
range. They even have a new one that prints on 11x17 for $499.
I've seen the in-store displays for this printer which have a picture printed from a
photo-lab and the same picture printed from the Epson side by side and ask you to
tell the difference. You'd be amazed.
Also, this isn't a special printer that requires hard to find inks and materials. The
Photo Stylus supplies are available everywhere from computers stores to office
supply stores.
-- Scott Gant, August 10, 1998
I picked up a Kodak XLS-8600 PS printer a couple months ago for an incredibly
good price (think exponential orders less than it's supposed to be). I believe the
'current' models of this printer are the DS-8650/8670 and they're around $7000.
The printer uses the afore-mentioned Kodak Xtra-life dye-sublimation media which
puts its price per page in at around $2.30.
Quality is exceptional. Much better than the Epson Stylus Color or Color II which I
used to own.
Color matching is difficult possibly because I use a PC rather than a Macintosh and
lack any real color matching software.
Even so, colors are rich and saturated. No apparent dots.
The printer has a SCSI port and a parallel port built in with a network card option.
With the parallel port, prints take about 2 minutes MOST of the time being spent
transferring and processing the image.
Dust control can be a problem as the Cyan, Magenta, and Yellow layers are printed
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