Re: Consider Colorspan Esprit?
Re: Consider Colorspan Esprit?
- Subject: Re: Consider Colorspan Esprit?
- From: Rudy Vonk <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2001 10:19:15 +0100
Richard Auger wrote:
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I don't understand what you are implying. The most successful pigmented inks to
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date, HP's UV, Encad's GO and ColorSpan's PermaChrome, have all been thermal.
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There is no molecular change when the ink is heated. Could you please provide
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more information?
I am not worried about the ink. (Although this is a separate issue,
Encad's GO inks, even if they are probably a great improvement over what
they were a few years ago, are still comprehensively awful. HP inks are
kind of OK, but the printers are one of the worst design catastrophes of
the last century. I have no experience with the PermaChrome inks - they
look all right at shows.)
The problem is the heads. Thermal inkjet heads don't last very long
anyway, and with pigmented inks going through them they often do not
last the minimum single ink quantity you can buy.
At the time (June 1999) a senior ColorSpan engineer had no major qualms
privately admitting that this was, indeed, a "minor drawback" of the equipment.
Both Roland dealers who are my candidates for providing me with an
FJ-500 also sell ColorSpan. Although this doesn't necessarily prove
anything except that they are competent salesmen, as soon as I expressed
a focused interest in the Roland device, neither so much as mentioned
the ColorSpan ever again.
Please do not interpret me as saying that the ColorSpan is "bad". I have
no reason to believe that it is. I simply do not like, for the
applications we had or have in mind, the technology it employs.
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Rudy Vonk
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+34 607 354100
You can't always want what you get.
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