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Re: What would happen if I used inkjet on Kodak Polymax fiber based paper?

2002-08-27 by Doug I.

Uh....lighten up, Barry. For all you know, Alfie is looking at doing
multimedia work by doing a traditional darkroom print, then adding to it
using an inkjet printer. Hardly OT, and in any case hardly up to you to
decide, let alone call him an "idiot" for asking a simple question.

Doug


> Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2002 17:03:57 -0000
> From: "flyfishingusa2002" <tflyfish@...>
> Subject: Re: What would happen if I used inkjet on Kodak Polymax fiber based
> paper?
> 
> Surely this is one of the most idot questions asked here, it has to
> be a "wind up" 
> Or will it start one of those endless useless threads?
> Please,please do not respond to me, I already know what you are
> going to say.
> 
> Lets keep the forum to DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint. Off topic if
> more than a couple of messages long should be done via private
> exchanges. 
> 
> Barry
> 
> 
> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., Jerry Olson
> <jerryolson@r...> wrote:
>> Quality will be terrible. Photo paper just doesn't work in inkjet
> printers.
>> 
>> jerry
>> 
>> wangalb wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hi folks,
>>> 
>>> What would happen to my Epson C80 if I tried to stick in Kodak
>>> Polymax fiber based paper into it? Would the inkjet print
> reasonably
>>> well on traditional photographic fiber paper (I wouldn't try
> glossy
>>> however)? How well would the inks sit on it?
>>> 
>>> That would be cool if it would work but if it damages the printer
>>> (which I wouldn't suspect) or the inks would smudge or fail to
> render
>>> the picture well then this would save me the time to experiment
> like
>>> that :)
>>> 
>>> Thanks for your help.
>>> 
>>> Alfie
>>> 
>>>

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