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sonsdad - 30 May 2007 12:46 GMT

Hi Group

What are your recommendations for a printer to be used to produce fine
black and white prints up to A3

Thanks to you all

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Warren Block - 30 May 2007 14:49 GMT

> What are your recommendations for a printer to be used to produce fine
> black and white prints up to A3

If by "fine black and white prints" you mean high-contrast things like
text or architectural drawings, then a LaserJet 5000.

If you mean grayscale photos, there's probably some multiple-gray inkjet
that would be more appropriate.

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Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota * USA

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measekite - 30 May 2007 17:04 GMT

The Canon Pro9000 is good but the Epson 3800 will produce the best BW
prints all of the way up to about 17" wide. While the Epson 2400 will
also do about as good a job and costs less if you ever want to do color
as well it is very costly on switching the carts from BW to Color.

> Hi Group
>
> What are your recommendations for a printer to be used to produce fine
> black and white prints up to A3
>
> Thanks to you all

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frederick - 30 May 2007 22:33 GMT

> The Canon Pro9000 is good but the Epson 3800 will produce the best BW
> prints all of the way up to about 17" wide. While the Epson 2400 will
> also do about as good a job and costs less if you ever want to do color
> as well it is very costly on switching the carts from BW to Color.

That's wrong. The cartridge switch that wastes ink on the R2400 is
between matte and glossy black cartridges - when you change from matte
to glossy papers and return. The same grey and colour cartridges are
always in the printer.
The 3800 also flushes ink when switching between matte and gloss, but
all 9 cartridges remain installed at all times.

The OP could/should also look at the HP B9180 and Canon 9500 (not 9000)

An "interactive" review is in progress here:
http://www.photo-i.co.uk/Reviews/printers/Pigs/page_1.html

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measekite - 31 May 2007 00:49 GMT

>> The Canon Pro9000 is good but the Epson 3800 will produce the best BW
>> prints all of the way up to about 17" wide. While the Epson 2400
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> The OP could/should also look at the HP B9180 and Canon 9500 (not 9000)

Thye Canon Pro 9500 is somewhat overpriced and untried. While the BW
results are better than the Pro9000 the printer is not proven and no
reviews on it have be out. If you look at the EFT5000 you will find
that while the results are fine there have been problems with the
printer and Canon does not stand behind it.

The 2400 cart swap is costly. While the 3800 does not require a swap
the ink flushing when you do switch is costly. Now if one want the best
BW on matte paper and does some color then that printer makes sense but
I find that some of the BW is matt and other is glossy. There goes the
costly switch.

Therefore if one does that then a compromise is in order and the Pro9000
can do acceptable BW (but greyscale is very slow) on both matte and
glossy and does great color.

Too bad the Epson 3800 does not have an extra ink channel.

> An "interactive" review is in progress here:
> http://www.photo-i.co.uk/Reviews/printers/Pigs/page_1.html

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