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Hi Guys,
Can't resist starting up a
little discussion here... I have been in the photo print business for over 30
years... we have completely stopped using photographic media because the latest
ink jets blow it away... all my life I was envious of the printing industry
because they got to use PRINTER INKS which have much brighter and more saturated
colors than what photographic media can produce, and, for example, in red
detail, the ink jets seem to produce much more detail than the monotone washouts
of photographic media. This becomes apparent in objects like the Rosette...
there is no way a photographic print can have the brilliance and color of a
print made with printer dyes.
But how to do this? For
years all that existed was piezo technology... slow, micro-banding... it wasn't
cutting it. Then last year HP came out with the HP 5000 printers which we were
lucky enough to see at Seybold, SF. Every piezo printer at Seybold was
banding... HP had five or six of these
5000's there and they were just chugging out one
perfect print after another... and fast! Utilizing thermal print heads that have
up to 3000 nozzles firing X six colors = 18,000 nozzles firing... I have used
this machine for a year now... I have never seen a single case of banding in the
photo mode.
So... to answer a question that
was never asked... I would not put aside ink jet... IMHO it will, or already
has, made photo prints obsolete.
Sorry if this was a bit
OT, but I think it relates to what we do (make prints from our beautiful images)
....I have always been interested in the best way to make custom prints... the
new technology surpasses the old.
Have a good
one,
Tony
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