[sdiy] Re: AlumaJet III

[Harry Bissell Jr]

It could be a dye based ink... Its a cheap clone
cartridge.  If you pay $30 for a black cartridge
then the price of the AlumaJet is actually pretty
cheap by comparison...as you would probably
get about 4-5 pages to the cartridge if you print
solid black

Thanks for the tip !!!!

H^) harry

I will set the failed attempts in the window right
away
--- Glen <mclilith at charter.net> wrote:
> At 04:20 PM 7/15/03 , Harry Bissell Jr wrote:
> 
> >I also tried some colors to show normalized
> >patches...yellow and orange were readable...but a
> >little undersaturated for my taste. More like a
> candy
> >finish... semi-transparent. Not bad at all.
> 
> Are you using dye-based ink? Since you mentioned
> "candy finish", I suspect
> that you are. Archival, pigmented ink might give a
> more solid looking
> color. Did you buy any special inks for this
> purpose, or just use your
> normal ink jet ink?
> 
> 
> later,
> Glen Berry