"Arthur Entlich" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>>>>>> Have you discussed this slowness with Epson yet, to determine if that is the "norm" or just either a defective unit or some weirdness in your system. I find this very odd, as I haven't yet heard another discussion of this problem. <<<<<<<< Remember that this is the 950C: an A4 printer that's announced but (I think???) not available in the US. (It's been available in Japan for the better part of a year.) I'm using a parallel port connection and not USB 2.0; I haven't gotten around to trying the USB cable yet. So it might get faster. However, I don't think that's the problem: when you select the "no margins" check box, it pops up a warning message to the effect that it's going to be slow and the edges aren't going to look as good. The edges look fine but it is slow. (Didn't I say this before<g>.) I did call Epson and complain, and the low-level person I spoke to refused to say anything other than: the only number I have here is 1 min 53 seconds for A4 with margins at "certain settings". > Secondly, I was wondering two things about the new Canon printers: > 1) how permanent are the dye based inks considered I can't comment on that, but I'd be quite surprised if it was significantly different from the Epson dye-based inks. (FWIW, fresh Epson 950C prints have the same disgusting smell as fresh HP970Cxi prints.) >>>>>>>>>> 2) The Canon 9000 reportedly has several thousands nozzles versus the Epson's' well under 1000. Has anyone heard of any clogging or related ink flow problems with the Canon 9000. Several thousand nozzles seems like a lot to keep track of ;-) <<<<<<<<<<< Dunno. My basic take is that the Epson 2100/2200/4000, being a pigment ink printer with both black and gray inks, is likely to be the definitive art-photograph printer (the demo B&W demo print they show is lovely), but that the Canon is going to be for the rest of us. I'm just getting back into film photography after a long hiatus, and figured either the 950C or the 900 would be enough for my needs for at least a year or so... David J. Littleboy [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tokyo, Japan ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe by mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], with 'unsubscribe filmscanners' or 'unsubscribe filmscanners_digest' (as appropriate) in the message title or body
