Brian:
Frankly, that's a wrinkle I hadn't thought of -- using other than
proprietary inks. I'll check out the sites. Thanks!
Hart Corbett
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>From: "B.Rumary" <brian.rumary@virgin.net>
>To: filmscanners@halftone.co.uk
>Subject: Re: filmscanners: SS4000 and LS-2000 real value?
>Date: Fri, Jan 26, 2001, 2:32 PM
>
> In <001d01c0879f$04737840$cec90fd2@phoenix>, Rob Geraghty wrote:
>> Pardon me. I should have said the only one in the realms of a dekstop
>> printer
>> category that someone might buy for home studio use. The 7000 and up
>> printers
>> are all *big* printers intended for professional print-shop use. And
>> they're
>> priced accordingly.
>>
>> As someone else pointed out, they do have pigmented ink - I wasn't aware of
>> that until now since even the 2000P is out of my price range.
>>
> You could get a smaller Epson printer, such as the Photo 750, and then use
> special cartridges with "archival" inks. These have many of the qualities of
> the inks used in the 2000P and bigger printers. These two web sites have some
> details:-
>
> www.tssphoto.com/sp/dg/index.html
> www.graphicstar.clara.net/index.htm
>
> Some of these inks, including pigment based and special all grey/black
> cartridges for B&W photo printing, are made by the UK company Lyson:-
>
> www.lyson.com
>
> They also sell to dealers in the US.
>
> Brian Rumary, England
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