> I used to own an Olympus P-400 dye-sub printer which printed up to A4 > I'd bought it to do on-site printing at trials. Paper and ribbons were > very expensive. Plus you had no choice but to buy the Olympus paper > and ribbon. I could print glossy or matte, but that entailed switching > ribbons not the paper. It was also not very forgiving of dust. I > frequently had to discard the first and sometines the second print > because of dust.
That was my big concern. At the shows the dust was horrible and embeded just about 50% of the shots. Its ok in house if you give the paper a good dust off. Its for sale BTW.:-) > The prints out of it tended to have a more plasticky look to them. > A friend recently showed me two photos she'd had taken by the official > photographer at a dog conformations show. Without even looking at the > back of the print I knew immediately that one of them had been printed > using a dye-sub on site. The difference was striking. I never noticed the "plastic" look until i compared some last year. Now i realy on my trusty S800 Canon. Dave > > > -- > Wendy Beard > Ottawa > Canada > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
