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| Thread ID: 70465 | 2006-07-04 10:25:00 | What do you guys think of this printer? | Renmoo (66) | Press F1 |
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| 468506 | 2006-07-05 08:40:00 | Black on its own can only print Black. Not Grey. How can it print anything but Black? It has to "mix" with something to get Grey Depending on the printer it may or may not also use the Black cartridge, plus a mix of colours to dilute it to Grey. So it does mix, (with Colour) to get Grey. Even though I might be colour-blind, the basic concept of getting Grey from Black only escapes my logic. Think newpapers. Some of the Canon will use pigment Black by itself on plain paper modulating the number of drops of ink sprayed on the paper thus mixing with the white of the paper. On Photo or coated papers the coloured dye inks are mixed. AFAIK Canon have chosen their point of difference additional red and green dyes on advanced printers rather than greys |
PaulD (232) | ||
| 468507 | 2006-07-05 09:00:00 | Yes, I thought of newspapers, but that simply means lowering the resolution which printers tend "not" to do because it will look like poor quality. As far as I am aware, all printers will use colour + black these days for greyscale, also they will usually use colour + black for any web based plain black text (HTML coded) as well. Of course it's all a conspiracy to sell more ink. |
godfather (25) | ||
| 468508 | 2006-07-05 10:18:00 | my printer was 7 years old Mine is a 12 year old Epson. It still goes fine. Cost me, gulp, $750 |
dolby digital (5073) | ||
| 468509 | 2006-07-05 10:25:00 | Mine is a 12 year old Epson. It still goes fine. Cost me, gulp, $750 $750 would have just been a mid-range model 12 years ago. I'm surprised it lasted so long. Can you still get ink cartriges for it? |
Greven (91) | ||
| 468510 | 2006-07-05 10:31:00 | Black on its own can only print Black. Not Grey. How can it print anything but Black? It has to "mix" with something to get Grey Depending on the printer it may or may not also use the Black cartridge, plus a mix of colours to dilute it to Grey. So it does mix, (with Colour) to get Grey. Even though I might be colour-blind, the basic concept of getting Grey from Black only escapes my logic. grey can be achieved by only using black, and that is to use a screen of black. Mono laser printers do it this way and my old mono inkjet did this way. but you are right with multicolour printers. should have read rest of thread |
plod (107) | ||
| 468511 | 2006-07-05 10:37:00 | $750 would have just been a mid-range model 12 years ago. I'm surprised it lasted so long. Can you still get ink cartriges for it? Printers were designed to last a bit longer then... maybe... I don't use the colour. I get refills now. Haven't bought an Epson cartridge for about 5 years. I think it has a "dumb" printhead as it doesn't tell you its out of ink till its really out of ink :D |
dolby digital (5073) | ||
| 468512 | 2006-07-05 10:38:00 | Yes, I thought of newspapers, but that simply means lowering the resolution which printers tend "not" to do because it will look like poor quality. As far as I am aware, all printers will use colour + black these days for greyscale, also they will usually use colour + black for any web based plain black text (HTML coded) as well. Of course it's all a conspiracy to sell more ink. No conspiracy, web pages are made up of RGB and not CMYK hence the need for multi colour black(correct me if I'm wrong) We get this problem at work with wanabe designers making blacks up of more then one colour on full colour jobs |
plod (107) | ||
| 468513 | 2006-07-05 11:24:00 | All printers are crap, their purpose is to sell ink and then die . All cheap printers have a limited lifespan, and poor print quality, More expensive ones are exactly the same but look flasher . I suggest a pen and paper . As for Canons, No better then anything else (talking budget models here folks) If the printer is cheap then it was built cheap . Back in the day I got in a bunch of Canon multi-function units and sold them as part of a package, Got a number of complaints about the print quality, and in all fairness it was absolute garbage . Looked like someone sucked on a crayon,spat on the page then rubbed their hair through it . |
Metla (12) | ||
| 468514 | 2006-07-05 22:10:00 | Jeeze you're a hard man Metla, only the bottom-feeding printers are that bad, and there's more than a little hyperbole splattered over your description of print quality. Actually, your description of the purpose of printers is not dissimilar to that of the human race i.e. we are born to spread disorder, disaster and death across the planet, briefly enhancing consumerism and conglomerate profits as we pass by, then to die and leave somebody else to mop up the trail of effluent we leave behind us and our leaking fluids, then dispose of the carcass. Hang on a minute :confused: this was supposed to be a bitter, vicious and vitriolic attack on your glad-handed and unhelpful opinions about inkjet printers, but I think I'm beginning to like you. :horrified Be afraid, be very very afraid! Cheers Billy 8-{) |
Billy T (70) | ||
| 468515 | 2006-07-05 23:47:00 | Yes, I thought of newspapers, but that simply means lowering the resolution which printers tend "not" to do because it will look like poor quality. As far as I am aware, all printers will use colour + black these days for greyscale, also they will usually use colour + black for any web based plain black text (HTML coded) as well. Of course it's all a conspiracy to sell more ink. I have a Canon i865 that I have defaulted to printing greyscale for most of the time. On plain paper it only uses the BCI3e-BK pigment cart (even printing web pages). This limits resolution to 600 dpi. Standard quality looks like normal laser, draft is good enough and a cart lasts about 2 reams. |
PaulD (232) | ||
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