On 13/10/2018 04.43, Basil Chupin wrote:
On 10/10/18 12:01 pm, Doug wrote:
On 10/09/2018 07:41 PM, Basil Chupin wrote:
On 9/10/18 11:49 pm, Carlos E. R. wrote:
On 09/10/2018 12.59, Dave Plater wrote:
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HOWEVER: I bought an Epson color printer, model disremembered, for 11"x17" color printing, and it was impossible to calibrate, and the user interface was MINIMAL, to say the least. Also, the ink cartridges were very small and had a very limited life--I used one up just trying to calibrate the thing. I gave it away! Take a look in a Staples or someplace at whatever model you might be interested in, and ask questions. It's possible that the minimalist design has spread throughout the lineup.
Which is why I usually spend a couple of days looking at the specs and reading reviews of whatever-I-intend-to-buy before deciding in the morning after I has slept on the matter on which to buy :-).
Yep :-)
Some years ago a friend (now unfortunately deceased) bought the Epson Stylus R2000 printer but then added a 'gizmo' which came from a company in the USA which fed the various inks not from the usual cartridges but via tubes from bottles which made it far more economical to run than buying cartridges. I now don't recall the name of the ink company which supplied that addition to the printer (?The Ink Company?).
I have seen those things.
Also, if you want to have archival quality prints then use pigment-based inks in your printer -- the dyes aren't archival material.
I wouldn't know what they use for ink, they don't say and don't give a choice. Anyway, nowdays I use a laser printer. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from openSUSE 15.0 (Legolas))