[geeks] Freakin' Inkjet printers...

[Dave McGuire]

On Wednesday, January 1, 2003, at 11:11 PM, Joshua D Boyd wrote:
>>   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?

   They absolutely SUCK for photo stuff...they're not continuous tone 
printers, they're solid-color devices.  I use it for schematics, PCB 
layouts, documentation, stuff like that.  Anything with fields of 
unchanging color comes out looking like it was done by a print shop.  
They really are amazing.  The Phaser 550 was a $12,000 printer when it 
was new (1997 or so), and they're built like tanks.  They do weigh a 
ton, though...I can *just* lift it.

   For photo stuff, I use a Kodak XLT-7720 dye sub printer, a very nice 
unit intended for medical imaging.  Its output is indistinguishable 
from a traditional photograph.

        -Dave

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