Digital BW, The Print

Hi Johnny,

The major advantage of the Epson printers is that they allow the use of pigmented ink which has considerably more permanence than does the dye based inks plus CIS/CFS systems are readibly available. The Canon Head Technology requires a fluid that is not capable (at least for now) of keeping pigment in suspension.

On a print to print comparison (I have both Canon & Epson printers) using dye based ink the Canon has more going for it . The quality of the print is pretty much equivelent to my eye and the Canon is at least four times as fast. The Canon cartidges are a bit pricy but probably not too much more than Epson OEM when you have to toss the Epson color cartidge when only a single color is gone rather than being able to replace single colors.  If Canon ever gets off its dead rear and makes the heads available then it raises a couple of interesting possibilities such as being able to use the Lyson inks interchangably. 

At this point, for serious B&W printing Epson pretty much owns the game. One would hope that competition will develop but I'm not going to hold my breath for now.

Roger
  -----Original Message-----
  From: Johnny Eades <jeades1@...> [mailto:jeades1@...]
  Sent: Tuesday, February 25, 2003 3:42 PM
  To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
  Subject: [Digital BW] Number of Nozzles--Better?


  I just came from the Epson site and read the specs on the Epson 
  Stylus 1280 which seems to be the norm on this newsgroup, and was 
  surprised to find it has only 48 nozzles on the black cartridge. The 
  new Canon i950 has 512 nozzles on its' printhead to be used for 
  printing black ink. My question is--why would I want to buy an Epson 
  when the Canon seems to be superiorly suited for the type of printing 
  I do?  use Black Only printing and want a printer to reduce the size 
  and visibility of the black ink dots. Someone lead me in the right 
  direction to make a decision between the two printers. None of the 
  retail outlets ever have any way of really printing a real world 
  image from one of my image files. I can only rely on input from this 
  newsgroup, so plese don't let me down.

  Your friend in photography

  Johnny Eades


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