RE: filmscanners: SS4000 and LS-2000 real value?

["Laurie Solomon" <laurie@advancenet.net>]

I concur; I was only offering a word of caution and not trying to endorse
any given manufacturer or model.

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-filmscanners@halftone.co.uk
[mailto:owner-filmscanners@halftone.co.uk]On Behalf Of Robert Kehl
Sent: Thursday, January 25, 2001 1:29 PM
To: filmscanners@halftone.co.uk
Subject: Re: filmscanners: SS4000 and LS-2000 real value?


IMO we need to take ALL claims in sales literature with at least a couple of
pounds (or kilos) of salt, not just a grain or two.  Yes, the qualifiers
such as "behind glass" and of course the kind of temperature and humidity
that is only found in Paradise are NOT real world parameters.  It's much
like how that  computer you're typing on was rated in its sales literature.
The manufacturers obviously put the best sounding specifications forward.

But it's not really a question of whether your prints will last 20 years or
100 years as the manufacturer claims, (soon it will be 1000 years -
millennial prints??)   But the real question is which printer and ink/paper
combo will give you the longest life in the real world.  If (this month)
that's not Epson, who is it?

Bob Kehl