Digital BW, The Print

John writ:

> Blog?
>
> Well that's a useless amateur gadget website if I ever saw one, I  
> guess he's trying to be funny or something. He sounds like a hobbyist.

Ouch...that's a bit of a harsh slam, I'd say. Johnston's is a good  
deal less irksome than a number of puffy photo blogs that get  
namechecked here and abouts.

Anyway, what I find funny about the B-series phase-out by HP is that  
these printers ostensibly (though not immediately) replaced the  
archival dye-based printer I'm still happily using, the Photosmart  
Pro 8750. Uh-huh, dyes, which appear to hold up quite well on HP's  
own papers, and produced black-and-white output that aced most of  
what I've seen coming out of  either the 9180 or 8850. I've liked the  
printer so much in the four-plus years i've had it that I sourced a  
second, barely-used 8750 to keep as a spare. I'll worry about a  
"replacement" when I've worn out the mothballed printer, by which  
time something truly better should have come along. (Or perhaps the  
folks perfecting electrowetting technology will be well along the way  
to largely kill off printing as we know it for most people.)


- Barrett

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