[geeks] Freakin' Inkjet printers...

Joshua D Boyd jdboyd at cs.millersville.edu
Wed Jan 1 22:11:16 CST 2003


On Wed, Jan 01, 2003 at 10:37:00PM -0500, Dave McGuire wrote:
> On Wednesday, January 1, 2003, at 10:26 PM, Lionel Peterson wrote:
> >Well, color laser is a bit $$$ right now
> 
>   What??
> 
>    
> http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/ 
> eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=32775&item=2084650196
>    
> http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/ 
> eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=32775&item=2085154300
>    
> http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/ 
> eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=302&item=2085364225
> 
>   These are the finest noncontinuous-tone color output devices that  
> I've ever used (and I've used a bunch)...pry mine (a 550) from my cold  
> dead fingers.

How is it for photo quality?  You use a Kodak printer of some sort for
that usually don't you?
 
> >Seems we are in the "give away the razor..." phase of the printer
> >industry...
> 
>   ...of the CONSUMER INKJET PRINTER industry you mean.  Don't support  
> it.

Either an HP or Epson 1200 printers would be extremely nice to have.
And someday I will have one of them, or something similar, a medium
format, really good, continuous (or at least a good aproximation of)
tone color inkjet with both postscript and ethernet.  But, it seems they
are still worth real money. 

-- 
Joshua D. Boyd


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