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My only complaint with ALPS is that while they promote their printers for
photographic quality prints, their technical support seems limited to "Are you sure
it is plugged in?" type responses.
The ALPS MD-1300 printer is an excellent 600 dpi printer for home darkroom use,
but ALL of the books and comments I have seen so far fail to solve either the
KODAK PhotoCD to PhotoShop color-mangling issue or the PhotoShop to dye-sub
color-mangling issue. By the way, I did download and install all of the
recommended KODAK CMS stuff, months ago.
By the way, PhotoShop is a wonderful program which I truly love. But the
remendous flexibility and precision of Photoshop requires rational inputs at all
stages.
Am I the only one dreaming that somewhere there should exist a PhotoShop
"printing ink" profile suited for dye sub printers like the ALPS AND OTHERS?
Does anyone know what PhotoShop profile is used for the KODAK desktop dyesub
printers or any others?
-- Charles D. Miller, February 13, 1999
---Please see my RETRACTION of this below.
I've been using an ALPS MD-1300 for about six months, and it is very impressive
except with deeply saturated blues, which it prints as slightly green cobalt blue or
else purplish. Light blue and most all other colors are pretty. I agree with the
generally very positive comments on this printer, except that after months of
tweaking, I can't get a decent rendition of royal blue or a darker blue IN THE
SAME IMAGE with other natural colors. If there is a fix for this, this is a really
nice printer for photographers, IMO. If there is not a fix, it is my opinion that
photographers should not buy an MD-1300 as part of a digital darkroom.
But, am I missing something here, folks?
---Please see my RETRACTION of this below.
-- Charles D. Miller, February 13, 1999
I've recently been looking into ALPS vs. Epson options. Several comments.
1) It does appear that ALPS has solved the fade problem that plagues ink jets like
Epson. The thermal transfer process behind dye sub printing produces extremely
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