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Color Printers
and now, just try to find someone that know where to buy Developer or Fixer...
much less know what it's used for (present company excluded I'm sure). Thanks to
the internet, photography as a hobby is alive and well, and getting bigger all the
time. And thanks to the new generation of inkjet printers, people are able to share
their new found joy with friends and family that don't have a computer connected
to the net.
-- Bart Baldwin, April 18, 2000
The Rochester Institute of Technology School of photography has been using a
combination of a digital printer that is RA4 process its almost like the Fuji
Pictrography. But this is run on a Kreonite machine its called the Sphera Printer. It
uses photographic paper RA4 paper and exposes the paper on three color laser then
the paper exposed is cut off automatically and then the person feeds it into the
Kreonite machine and walla you have a print that was fix and edited on photoshop
and then process on real photographic paper RA4 no more this iris crap or whatever
output there is for digital media now you have an RA4 print that was done digitally
and now it is back on normal color paper. Tony Torres from the Rochester Institute
of Technology if you ever want to see this ingenious machine stop by the RIT
campus and head to building 7B and ask for the ISM lab that is where I work. Hope
you're eyes start to see that film and normal process paper will not be obsolite in
photography.
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-- Tony Torres, April 24, 2000
The Epson 1270 and 870 printers seem to be another significant level up in the
quality available to home, or inexpensive commerical, digial printing. Many people
seem to feel that these printers are better than some of the lower end dye-sub
printers out there.
I've seen the output, and it seems awfully impressive to me. I'd love to see
comments about them, though, from people who really have extensive experience
with digital printing at higher price ponts, and with more than the occassional
traditional chemical/optical custom enlargement, away from the mini-labs.
With these new models, and their fade resistance (10-23 years depending upon
paper choice), Epson seems to be getting there. The pull of being able to return to
"darkroom work", but with color rather than black and white, and in a much more
space and time efficient manner, is strong.
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