John Francis mused: > > Bruce Dayton mused: > > > > My Canon experience was pretty good overall and my HP experience has > > been similar. I currently have an HP 7960 and frankly can't tell the > > difference in output quality between it and the various Epsons that I > > have seen. > > I've got the HP 9650, which looks pretty good to me. It's only a 4-ink > printer, so I'd expect a few problems with large areas of pastel tones, > but when I bought it there weren't too many choices for A3-size printers.
I mean, of course, 6-ink printer (not the current 7-ink or 8-ink models). Plus it can be used in 4-ink mode as a fallback, although I don't use it that way (it's sole purpose is as a photo printer to replace my venerable HP PhotoSmart - a contemporary of that old Epson Stylus Photo). I've just discovered it can produce long prints - up to 13 x 50 (limited, I suppose, by ink cartridge capacity?). I need to get some roll paper to try; that would let me print up some large panoramas in just two pieces.
