edmund ronald <edmundronald@gmail.com>: I think there was a huge change about 2 generations ago, and now the big Epsons are very stable and have good drivers and good profiles; this is a surprise to those of us who owned the previous generations and smaller inkjets. I used to run a 9600, and now have an Epson 3880 sitting on my shelf, and there is simply nothing bad I can say about it apart from the ink costs.
This has been pretty much the same experience of a friend of mine whose last inkjet printer was an Epson 1270. She has been hemming and hawing about buying a new inkjet printer for eons and a few weeks ago, finally bit the bullet ordering the 3880. Her reaction to her first test prints using Epson paper and Epson profiles was "Oh my! This is ever so much better than I expected". I was kind and didn't say "I told you"...'-}} I haven't yet warned her of the mac side (I'm pc based) issues with OS upgrades and Apple/Epson's penchant for totally mucking up one's workflow but I suspect as annoying as that is, she will deal with and and she's still going to be significantly happier with the 3880's output than she was with her 1270. Terrie http://tlbtlb.com/ tlbtlb@mail.com
On 08/07/2013 04:43 AM, tlabarbera wrote:
edmund ronald <edmundronald@gmail.com>: I think there was a huge change about 2 generations ago, and now the big Epsons are very stable and have good drivers and good profiles; this is a surprise to those of us who owned the previous generations and smaller inkjets. I used to run a 9600, and now have an Epson 3880 sitting on my shelf, and there is simply nothing bad I can say about it apart from the ink costs.
This has been pretty much the same experience of a friend of mine whose last inkjet printer was an Epson 1270. She has been hemming and hawing about buying a new inkjet printer for eons and a few weeks ago, finally bit the bullet ordering the 3880. Her reaction to her first test prints using Epson paper and Epson profiles was "Oh my! This is ever so much better than I expected". I was kind and didn't say "I told you"...'-}}
I haven't yet warned her of the mac side (I'm pc based) issues with OS upgrades and Apple/Epson's penchant for totally mucking up one's workflow but I suspect as annoying as that is, she will deal with and and she's still going to be significantly happier with the 3880's output than she was with her 1270.
Terrie http://tlbtlb.com/ tlbtlb@mail.com
Two generations ago and I think more precise in 2006 several brands introduced printers with new weaving/dithering algorithms. It is not just Epson that made that progress. Some people at universities in the background know exactly where that evolution step came from I guess. The 3800/3880 is an excellent machine in today's Epson range. Probably the best of the total range in ease of maintenance and consistency. The technology of the 1270, the dye ink, the media, the color management and the applications to print from, even the camera then; one would not be satisfied with any part of that now. True, there can be a rotten apple in the pie today too. -- Met vriendelijke groet, Ernst Dinkla http://www.pigment-print.com/spectralplots/spectrumviz_1.htm December 2012: 500+ inkjet media paper white spectral plots.
ImagePrint RIP is quite different from most of the others around. Besides the obvious production tools to speed up projects there are other features that are not available in other RIPs. There is no linearization, no ink limits, just choose the proper profile and media and print. The Shadow Point slider offers a different "shadow" generation from 0 (very dense) to 300 (very open). This is available in color and B&W profiles. Colorbyte will, at no charge, produce new profiles for any material that you use that is not in the huge list available with their Profile Manager app. You print the charts, color and/or B&W, ship to them and they publish the new profiles. Very nice. There are more features but I think these three are very important. Cheers, Barry Rudick Aker Imaging
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