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[filmscanners] Re: Printers
Two comments:
1) Epson dye ink based printers always need good quality clay coated or
other specialized inkjet paper to provide the best quality result. If
you are after a printer than gives best results with standard bonded
paper, the HP will win, but the inks are sometimes "Velvia"
oversaturated with better papers as a result. The C80 is not a dye
based ink printer, it is pigmented, and the results differ as a result
from the 950.
2) If this printer is taking anything approaching 30 minutes for a 8 x
10 print, even at 2880 x 720 dpi, something is not properly configured.
Normally, 1/2 to 1/3rd that time for a print of that nature.
Art
David J. Littleboy wrote:
> "Ted Bayer" <tedbayer@harbornet.com> asks:
>
>
>>The two I am considering are:
>>HP Deskjet 920c
>>Epson Stylus C80
>>
>
> FWIW, I just replaced an aging HP 970 with an Epson 950C. The bottom line
> is: the HP is better.
>
> Very strange, since I've _never_ heard anything nice said about HP and never
> heard anything bad said about Epson.
>
> The HP suffers from water-soluble inks and bad paper handling for
> heavy-weight stock (it sometimes scratches the surface of the paper as it
> drags it through its somewhat convoluted paper path), but it's faster, the
> colors are much brighter, and it seems a tad sharper. The portraits in the
> Kodak PDI Target test file look chalky and corpse-like on Epson 950C prints.
>
> I expect/hope I'll be able to brighten up the Epson colors somewhat by
> twiddling some settings somewhere.
>
> I was looking forward to full-bleed prints from the Epson, but it has this
> cute trick that the narrower the margins the slower it prints. My first
> print took over 30 minutes, and wasn't even a full-bleed.
>
> David J. Littleboy
> Not amused, in
> Tokyo, Japan
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