> Bob W wrote > > A4 dye-sub printers seem to be at a reasonably affordable price point > nowadays, compared to when I last bought a photo printer. What are the > pros and cons of each type of printer? I am not particularly > interested in buying a printer that does larger than A4 since I only > rarely need a larger print. >
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. 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. -- Wendy Beard Ottawa Canada -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
