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| 4135.1 | what quality print is needed | SALEM::LEIMBERGER | | Thu Sep 20 1990 06:38 | 28 |
| The fact that the system is a 2500 has no bearing on which printer you
use. I have a Citizen GSX 140 at home. It uses a 4 colored ribbon and
does not need any special paper. It uses the EpsonQ print driver. The
printer has the capability to print 360x360 DPI. The problem is the
Epson driver does not support that high a resolution. Can't remember
offhand but I think it is 180x360 or thereabouts. I have had good
results printing structured graphics out of Professional Page with this
printer. No jaggies,and the color is good. The LJ25XX line from DEC
(paintjet) will give you a richer print,but I did not buy one of these
because:
Cost,both of printer,and ink cartridges,and the need for special
paper. The deciding factor however was that the finished print was not
suitable for mailing list etc. The quality was their but the ink runs
if it gets wet. I have seen Wax based thermal printers that give
magazine like quality, but the cost is prohibitive(at least to me).
I printed out a Xmas card on the GSX,and then took it to a copy
shop and had it copied on a color copier. The result was very good. It
actually looked better than the original. Keep in mind that I used a
simple pallete for this project. This process will give you a picture
that could serve as a preliminary proof if you had to show a customer.
I have had several people (clone users) bemoan the output of the Amiga
when it comes to printing. However the Amiga is not the problem. Their
is just no cost effective way to get quality color prints thes people
want out of a desktop system. What applications do you have in mind ?
The application will have a very heavy inpact on the printer you will
end up selecting. If it is a commercial venture then a color lazer
printer may be needed( cost more than a new car).
bill
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| 4135.2 | | KAHUNA::SUMNER | | Fri Sep 21 1990 16:52 | 13 |
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A friend of mine owns a funiture business. He wants to market a
chair, something like a produces chair, and have the kids picture
on it. So, I would digitize the picture and then send it to the
printer and do a heat transfer of the picture to the material.
I've looked at some Canons thermal printers and they gave me a
demo on the process I used. It was impressive but, the price was
$6,000. I can't justify that kind of cost for this venture.
How many colors can your printer generate? My knowledge base on
color printers is zip, I assume that your 4 color printer has
a process of combining the 4 colors to achieve a many colors?
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| 4135.3 | Well, I think LJ250's are OK too. | SNOC02::KING | Randall King @SNO Sydney, Aussieland | Fri Sep 21 1990 21:28 | 33 |
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Well, I reckon an LJ250 is not too bad for a lot of things if you can
find one cheap or on loan.
Resolutions (in HP PCL mode) are 180x180dpi for 8 colours (eg. business
graphics), and 90x90 dpi for 256 colours. 90 x 90 is very low res, so
be careful. However, I use an LJ for printing cards, titles etc from
DPRINT I which is always less than 8 colours and it does the job
beautifully.
In my experience, the ink doesnt run - if you use the higher
quality paper recommended for ink jets - which is addmittedly an extra
cost.
Also, some people arent aware of how to get the more vibrant colours -
you just have to enable "double pass" printing recommended for plastic
transparencies.
Apart from these the other great features worth noting are
- no print noise! preserves your sanity.
- very convenient cartridge replacements
- separate BW cartridge for ordinary text printing
- in my experience at work over a few years, very
reliable and trouble free ie. little or no clogging.
- very lightweight - lightest printer I've ever used.
Once you get hooked on inkjets, going back to dot matrix is tough -
although I must admit the 24pin colour high-res printers are sometimes
tempting.
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