Digital BW, The Print

Hi Clarence:

Here is a site that could give you an overview of the wide format  
market:

http://www.large-format-printers.org/

Leslie Otterbein

On Jan 27, 2006, at 5:50 AM, Clarence Walker wrote:

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> Creative Expression Photography
> <http://www.creativeexpressiononline.com/>
> http://www.creativeexpressiononline.com
> Commercial, fine-art, and stock
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> In considering a wide format printer for achieving the full range  
> of shades
> of gray while retaining a good pure black black and still offering  
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> whites and highlights, it seems as though Epson is the printer of  
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> most of you. Is anyone aware of a website where such capabilities  
> are tested
> and measured or the "best of the best" grayscale inks and  
> methodologies.
> Even in reading the Epson materials it seems as though one  
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> change out the blacks and do expensive system flushes. Might there  
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> be a printer out there where I can print color and black and white  
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> having to constantly be changing ink sources. I will say that with  
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> i9900 the ease of use has been wonderful, but now I need something  
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> wider format and also geared to broad ranges of gray/b&w while  
> retaining
> color abilities. Maybe there simply isn't an existing turn key answer.
> Trouble with Epson is that 2000.00+ hurdle for the next step up.
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