Two comments: 1) Epson dye ink based printers always need good quality clay coated or other specialized inkjet paper to provide the best quality result. If you are after a printer than gives best results with standard bonded paper, the HP will win, but the inks are sometimes "Velvia" oversaturated with better papers as a result. The C80 is not a dye based ink printer, it is pigmented, and the results differ as a result from the 950.
2) If this printer is taking anything approaching 30 minutes for a 8 x 10 print, even at 2880 x 720 dpi, something is not properly configured. Normally, 1/2 to 1/3rd that time for a print of that nature. Art David J. Littleboy wrote: > "Ted Bayer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> asks: > > >>The two I am considering are: >>HP Deskjet 920c >>Epson Stylus C80 >> > > FWIW, I just replaced an aging HP 970 with an Epson 950C. The bottom line > is: the HP is better. > > Very strange, since I've _never_ heard anything nice said about HP and never > heard anything bad said about Epson. > > The HP suffers from water-soluble inks and bad paper handling for > heavy-weight stock (it sometimes scratches the surface of the paper as it > drags it through its somewhat convoluted paper path), but it's faster, the > colors are much brighter, and it seems a tad sharper. The portraits in the > Kodak PDI Target test file look chalky and corpse-like on Epson 950C prints. > > I expect/hope I'll be able to brighten up the Epson colors somewhat by > twiddling some settings somewhere. > > I was looking forward to full-bleed prints from the Epson, but it has this > cute trick that the narrower the margins the slower it prints. My first > print took over 30 minutes, and wasn't even a full-bleed. > > David J. Littleboy > Not amused, in > Tokyo, Japan ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe by mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], with 'unsubscribe filmscanners' or 'unsubscribe filmscanners_digest' (as appropriate) in the message title or body
