[Leica] Put your print where your mouth is (aka Is B.D. crazy?)

[bladman99 at yahoo.ca (Dan C)]

Is this the printer that is strictly b/w?

-dan c.

At 09:04 PM 03-12-04 -0500, B. D. Colen wrote:
>Thanks, Eric - Great image to work with, btw...But I have to say that
>even I was amazed. I think Eric's right - if the paper was the same, I
>think a loupe would be required to tell them apart. Now, if hp will just
>get it's act together and come out with an 11x17 or 13x19 version of
>this printer..:-)
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org
>[mailto:lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of
>Eric
>Sent: Friday, December 03, 2004 7:41 PM
>To: lug@leica-users.org
>Subject: [Leica] Put your print where your mouth is (aka Is B.D. crazy?)
>
>
>B.D. wrote:
>
>>Nope. But they should look essentially the same.
>>I'm happy to do a swap with you - contact me off-list.
>
>This is from the thread Richard started about whether or not to set up a
>darkroom.  B.D. raved about his HP 7960.  So, I sent B.D. a silver print
>made from a digital file and the digital file itself.  He made a few
>prints on his 7960 and sent them back.
>
>Wow.
>
>I'm not sure I could tell them apart in a blind test.  The paper is
>slightly different, but it's hard to tell any difference in the image
>quality.  I'm impressed.
>
>Thanks for taking the time to do this, B.D.  I'm convinced.
>
>--
>Eric
>http://canid.com/
>
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