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Subject: [Leica] Printer Purgatory
From: pdzwig at summaventures.com (Peter Dzwig)
Date: Thu Jun 14 15:06:21 2007
References: <Pine.LNX.4.62.0706141118250.20993@mail.2alpha.com>

Peter,

I'm going to follow this with some interest. I too would like to change
printers, but finding a combination of printer that can handle B&W well, use 
MIS
or similar if I want and handle the papers that I use AND can provide the 
curves
seems to be a nightmare.

Good Luck,

Peter

Peter Klein wrote:
> I've just wasted another evening and about $15 worth of ink dealing with
> a print head Clog From Hell. 


> I have two printers.  I used the 1280 for color for a while, then
> dedicated it to B&W.  I got an Epson R200 for a song, and dedicated that
> to color. Neither printer ever gave me WYSIWYG color.  The
> Epson-provided profiles (I've downloaded several) don't work with
> Epson's own papers. Always much too dark.  I've had to resort to
> manually creating curves that work with some slider settings I
> downloaded from the Norman Koren site.
> 

> I have heard that many people get good results with MIS inks and the
> Epson R200 or R300.  If that's a good way to go, I could always revert
> back to color with the 1280 and convert the R200 to B&W.  But if I'm
> just going to get more clogs, forget it, I might as well try something
> else.
> 
> Advice welcome!
> 
> --Peter
> 
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