Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/07/09
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]on 9/7/00 12:17 pm, Robert Jagitsch at robertj@powerlogix.com wrote: > The Coolscan III was $675, Epson about $450. The 1270 prints b&w of > very high quality. I haven't seen the piezo setups yet, but this > setup has been more than good enough for me, I'm completely satisfied. I have seen the Piezo prints and I think the 1270 prints are better by quite a long way. Certainly the grain is finer. The downside of the 1270 is that the carts are proprietary to Epson so you can't use other inks, or quadtone inks. Nor are the images 'archival' by museum standards. However, by mode-changing b/w images to quadtones, then into RGB, you can simulate some of the quadtone qualities using the Epson's color inks. In any case this gives better results than printing directly from grayscales. And if you print using black ink on watercolor paper I think the images will be pretty darn stable. The 1270 would take a hell of a lot of beating in my opinion. The 2000p may do it, of course, but the jury is still out and may be for a while yet. In the meantime, my prints look lovely. Incidentally, if anyone is still getting green/blue casts when printing grayscales onto the 870 or 1270 from Photoshop, and ended up like I did banging their head against a wall, email me for a wonderfully simple and elegant solution I finally trawled up from a newsgroup. - -- John Brownlow http://www.pinkheadedbug.com