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Subject: [Leica] OT: Epson 3800 Printer Info Request
From: philippe.orlent at pandora.be (Philippe Orlent)
Date: Mon Feb 12 14:40:56 2007
References: <C1F6523F.447C4%mark@rabinergroup.com>

Eric Merill did a print on it at the LUG print exchange. It has this  
silverish base.
Magic for colors. Don't remember the name. Didn't bookmark it either.  
Damn.
Philippe



Op 12-feb-07, om 23:19 heeft Mark Rabiner het volgende geschreven:

> On 2/12/07 4:24 PM, "Brian Reid" <reid@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> typed:
>
>> I've had my 3800 since October. I'd guess I've printed 1500 pages  
>> with it.
>> Great printer.
>>
>> It is maddeningly incompatible with Hahnemuehle Photo Rag 308  
>> paper, of which
>> I have a lot. I think I'll probably try to sell my unopened boxes  
>> of that
>> stuff on eBay, because I don't have the patience to get it through  
>> my 3800. It
>> jams and misfeeds something terrible. And once a sheet has jammed  
>> a dozen
>> times, its edge is buggered enough that it will never feed properly.
>>
>> For glossy prints I just use the Epson Premium Glossy paper and  
>> I'm happy with
>> it. Glossy is glossy, after all, and prints made on fancy glossy  
>> paper don't
>> seem to me to look any different from prints made on adequate  
>> glossy paper.
>>
>> For matte prints I use Crane Museo Silver Rag 300 paper, and I've  
>> pretty much
>> stopped looking because it does everything I want. It doesn't come  
>> in my
>> favorite size (11x14 or 11x17) but I know how to cut down larger  
>> sizes.
>>
>> I had trouble finding the Epson paper profiles for the 3800. The  
>> Museo
>> profiles were on crane.com and very easy to find. I forgot to  
>> write down where
>> I finally found the Epson profiles. I would hope that by now they  
>> are just
>> shipping with the printer.
>>
>>
>>
> Is there not super gloss paper in which it looks like Cibachrome? I  
> thought
> were was. Ultra gloss like. I thought that was was the setting was  
> for on
> the printer menu. I thought I saw prints like that.
>
>
> Mark Rabiner
> New York, NY
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>
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