nevets@ihlpm.ATT.COM (Steven R Ringwood) (11/30/88)
I have been trying to decide on a new color printer for some time and have some questions and also some notes on a new Canon printer. First the questions: 1) Has any bodyheard of/used a Canon FP-510? (See below for some notes on it). 2) I have been primarily looking at the HP-Paintjet and the Xerox 4020 (and now the Canon FP-510). What I want is a printer there produces good quality and color. (I currently am using a JX-80). My price range is $1000 - $2000. Any suggustions on a printer. 3) If i decide on the Canon FP-510, does anyone know of a printer driver (1.3) for it?. How would I make one, or is there some one out there who will do it? Now the Canon FP-510 It sounds like a nice printer and sounds like it should work well with the Amiga. If I understood the price right it retails at $1500. I plan to check it out this Friday if I can find one in the area. The following information comes from Canon and is reproduced without permission. 160 Pixels per inch, with 64-step Gradation The Remarkable Super High Resolution Image Printer FULL COLLOR PRINTER FP-510 .. auto-capping mechanism ... RGB, CMY, color paller, or B/W modes can be selected as image data .... Gradation has been improved by providing cyan and magenta colors in three types of ink differentiated by density: thick, medium and light. The FP-510 achieves high-density images and abundant gradations by using analog modulation through dot diameter variation and by light and dark ink. Drop-on-demand type ink-jet printing Color representation: 260,000-color: 2-color, 4-color, 16-color, 256-color (pallet) .. Centronics type (interface) ... ====================================================================== Thanks in advance for any information Steven Ringwood, ihlpm!nevets, (312)-979-5161
muzak@vax1.acs.udel.EDU (Stephen F Felicetti) (12/01/88)
In article <2638@ihlpm.ATT.COM> nevets@ihlpm.ATT.COM (Steven R Ringwood) writes: >I have been trying to decide on a new color printer for some time >and have some questions and also some notes on a new Canon printer. > >1) Has any bodyheard of/used a Canon FP-510? I've heard about it, but that's about all. I just bought an HP-PaintJet for my amiga in September and I am VERY SATISFIED with it -- I took it right out of the box, connected it to the computer, selected the 1.3 PaintJet driver, and proceeded to print out a nice HAM (4096 color) image from a Sculpt-3D animation using GRABBIT -- it came out BEAUTIFULLY (and fairly quickly)! I then, of course, began madly printing screens from all my games just to see how they would turn out -- and they all printed wonderfully! (One thing I DID notice right away, however, was that the blues were coming out relatively darker than the other colors; this could be lessened by color- correcting the blues from the preferences screen, but they still remained slightly darker than they should have been. Otherwise, the PaintJet produced an EXACT replica of the screen on paper.) By the way, the 1.3 driver uses the PaintJet's 180 dpi mode, but performs dithering in 2x2 'blocks' of pixels in order to properly reproduce the amiga's colors, resulting in an effective resolution of 90 dpi. Needless to say, it still does a fine job despite the slight loss of resolution. The 1.3 driver is obviously well-written overall, and printing amiga fonts with anti-aliasing yields excellent results. > (I currently am using a JX-80). My price range > is $1000 - $2000. Any suggustions on a printer. I bought my PaintJet (new) for $800, but that was through my university computer store (i.e. greatly discounted). I believe it normally sells for around $1100 (?). >3) If i decide on the Canon FP-510, does anyone know > of a printer driver (1.3) for it?. I don't know myself, but if there isn't currently a driver for the Canon, you *may* be able to find a PD driver for it. (I'll let you know if I encounter one.) [Canon printer specs deleted.] Overall, you can probably tell that I'm very pleased with my PaintJet. 800 bucks was a lot of money for me to spend on a printer, but I don't regret it one bit! Oh...I almost forgot: I don't know whether the Canon requires special paper, but with PaintJet, you'll do best using HP's special paper. I wasn't sure whether I'd want to spend the extra money for their 'special' paper, but I was so pleased with the quality (NO smearing, DEEP colors, blacks are *BLACK*) that I don't mind the extra expense. (I've even had people comment on the paper's overall 'neat' look and texture, wondering what brand of paper I was using!) And, of course, you can always keep a stack of cheepo, run-of-the-mill fan-fold paper for printouts in which quality isn't important (text prints a bit lighter and somewhat 'fuzzy,' but the quality varies quite a bit depending on the paper's thickness, texture, etc.) Hope this information (read: plug for the PaintJet! ;-) helps!
me128-aw@kepler.Berkeley.EDU (me128 student) (12/10/88)
In article <2424@udccvax1.acs.udel.EDU> muzak@vax1.acs.udel.EDU (Stephen F Felicetti) writes: >I was so pleased with the quality (NO smearing, DEEP colors, blacks are *BLACK*) >that I don't mind the extra expense. (I've even had people comment on the ... Never mind the special paper, what about the Ink Cartridges! I too paid $800 for a paintjet responding to an ad in the paper. Turns out it was a "demo" model from HP that was never really used. I love the printer, but the ink cartridges contain the piezo print elements on it. End result: You never have to worry about burning out or cleaning the print head b/c you do replace it with the ink. Unfortunately, it also means it costs $34.95 for a color cartridge and 29.95 for a b/w!!! I've been trying to refill my cartridges, but with limited success. I drill holes in the tops of empty cartridges and fill them with Dr. PH Martins watercolors (magenta, turquoise, lemmon yellow, black). The colors match EXACTLY, but the cartridges only work intermittently. Maybe the watercolors are clogging the nozzles. Anyway, it works sometimes, but I need to find out how to stop the clogging. The good thing is, of course, that there's nothing to lose. If the nozzles clog permanently, you haven't lost anything. -Vincent H. Lee
ncreed@ndsuvax.UUCP (W. Reed) (12/12/88)
In article <27086@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> me128-aw@kepler.Berkeley.EDU (me128 student) writes: >In article <2424@udccvax1.acs.udel.EDU> muzak@vax1.acs.udel.EDU (Stephen F Felicetti) writes: >>I was so pleased with the quality (NO smearing, DEEP colors, blacks are *BLACK*) >>that I don't mind the extra expense. (I've even had people comment on the >.... >Never mind the special paper, what about the Ink Cartridges! >means it costs $34.95 for a color cartridge and 29.95 for a b/w!!! >I've been trying to refill my cartridges, but with limited success. I drill Ok, I don't have THAT printer, but I did have an HP ThinkJet (Black only.) What I did, was save up a couple of old ink cartridges and take a syringe and pull all the extra ink out of the spent cartridges (it never was all gone) and inject them into Yet Another spent cartridge. This worked very well, and 3 spent cartridges gave me one full cartridge that had more ink than a new one. These cartridges had plastic bags inside the clear plastic shell. There wasn't any pressure in the bags, so they didn't leak. Hope this can save someone a few bucks... -- ------ Walter Reed ------ + uunet!ndsuvax!ncreed or ncreed@ndsuvax.BITNET "There's no point in being + or ncreed@plains.NoDak.edu grown up if you can't be + childish sometimes!" Dr. Who + USnAIL: 925 9th Ave W. West Fargo, ND 58078