[Leica] Another failure of Epson 3800 printer

[rgacpa at yahoo.com (Bob Adler)]

Indeed Frank. And it's a 9880, not 9800; different inks, different heads, 
different drop sizes, different (better IMO) prints.


I had a 4000; liked it VERY much other than the clogs. I once took a print 
as wide as it could print (around 16.5") into my dealer along with the file 
and asked them if they would print it on the same type paper with one of the 
new HP's with a built in spectrophotometer. They did, and the only 
difference was a bit more sharpness because the drop size was smaller. They 
were very surprised.

Then the 9880 and the 7880 went on sale. Epson was giving credit for having 
one of their printers, 3 or 4 free rolls of paper, etc. The 7880 max width 
is 24" (22 really with wiggle room borders). When you're printing squares 
that's really not very big when you have big scanned files. 44" is much 
better :-) With borders it's really 42. Many of my prints are right in the 
middle; about 34 - 38". The price per inch difference in cost is much less 
going from the 7880 to the 9880 than from the 4880 to the 7880.

So that was my rationale (not that it took much for me to convince me). 
Besides, my son finished college so I put it in his room so he wouldn't be 
able to come back and live at home ;-)

Best,
Bob


 Bob Adler
Palo Alto, CA
http://www.raflexions.com




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From: Frank Filippone <red735i at earthlink.net>
To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
Sent: Sunday, April 19, 2009 6:33:32 PM
Subject: Re: [Leica] Another failure of Epson 3800 printer

Bob... why the 9800?  Big prints?

I am looking to find if there is something else that would gravitate a buyer
towards this big a printer......

Frank Filippone
red735i at earthlink.net


My 9880 is bug free. Amazing machine.


Bob Adler




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