Photo-realism on plain paper from inkjets?
Eugene Mroz
Been following with interest recent discussions about the near-photo
quality of the newest generation of inkjet printers from Epson and HP.
My question: How do the images look when printed on conventional
laserwriter quality paper rather than the specially coated papers? My
guess is that since these new printers put down a lot more ink,
bleed-through and wrinkling would be particularly troublesome.
Which printer(s) (inkjet or otherwise) put the best quality photos on to
plain paper?
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Gene Mroz
mr...@concentric.net
Michael John Hide
mr...@concentric.net (Eugene Mroz) wrote:
When I was at Comp -usa the manager tried it with plane injet paper
and what you said is true ,the paper was saturated and wrinkled .
he was using the same setting as for the photographic quality prints.
I do not know if there is another setting for this situation on the
photosmart. mjh
Bob Seidel
Gene, I have an older Epson. The driver has setting for all types of
paper - when you select regular paper, it obviously doesn't put out
anywhere near as much ink. Works fine, although of course the picture
quality is not as good as with specialty papers.
Bob
On Sun, 15 Jun 1997 10:25:22 -0600, mr...@concentric.net (Eugene Mroz)
wrote:
>Been following with interest recent discussions about the near-photo
>quality of the newest generation of inkjet printers from Epson and HP.
>
>My question: How do the images look when printed on conventional
>laserwriter quality paper rather than the specially coated papers? My
>guess is that since these new printers put down a lot more ink,
>bleed-through and wrinkling would be particularly troublesome.
>
>Which printer(s) (inkjet or otherwise) put the best quality photos on to
>plain paper?
>
>--
>Gene Mroz
>mr...@concentric.net
--
Bob Seidel
mail: bseidelR...@ipass.net
webpage: http://www.ipass.net/~bseidel
Twilight
I Think it depends on what you really want to do with your pictures....
when i print the ones i take i normally put them on the web... but when i
print them to go into a book of flyers or something i use the ink jet /
high quality paper. and when i did that i have had several people lift the
plastic and try to feel the picture... they don't realize it is part of the
paper not a photgraph... so i tend to believe it is worth the investment
but then again i spent like ten bucks and got a hundred sheets and have
like 80 left.
(my printing is done with a cannon 4200 and also do black and white on a hp
4mplus
)
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Twilight
Net Solutions of Virginia
http://www.pinn.net/netsol
Eugene Mroz wrote in article ...
Douglas Gennetten
Eugene Mroz wrote:
> Which printer(s) (inkjet or otherwise) put the best quality photos on to
> plain paper?
>
The PhotoSmart printer has a plain-paper setting that adjusts the ink
for those conditions. The results are quite good (for plain paper).
I don't know how it compares with others.
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Doug Gennetten
Home Imaging Division of HP
Duke
On Sun, 15 Jun 1997 20:14:16 GMT, mike...@mindspring.com (Michael
John Hide) wrote:
>mr...@concentric.net (Eugene Mroz) wrote:
>
>>
>>My question: How do the images look when printed on conventional
>>laserwriter quality paper rather than the specially coated papers? My
>>guess is that since these new printers put down a lot more ink,
>>bleed-through and wrinkling would be particularly troublesome.
>>
>>Which printer(s) (inkjet or otherwise) put the best quality photos on to
>>plain paper?
>>
>>--
>>Gene Mroz
>>mr...@concentric.net
>When I was at Comp -usa the manager tried it with plane injet paper
>and what you said is true ,the paper was saturated and wrinkled .
>he was using the same setting as for the photographic quality prints.
>I do not know if there is another setting for this situation on the
>photosmart. mjh
There is a setting for plain paper and one for inkjet paper as well as
all the others for photo papers. Output is quite good on both of these
with very little saturation.
Wayne
Alex Sokoloff
>Which printer(s) (inkjet or otherwise) put the best quality photos on to
>plain paper?
I've seen stupendous output from an Iris smartjet onto non-coated papers
(specifically, high-quality papers used for watercolor painting). I don't
think you were asking about the high-end stuff, but I wonder what it is
abo the smartjet that makes it so good at printing onto relatively porous
surfaces...
Alex
Mike Henry
The output om 8x10 CompUSA inkjet paper was quite acceptable for draft
purposes on my PS printer, even though I was printing images from my DC-120
(1280x960 res). Surprisingly, the output was also pretty good on an old
DeskJet transparency. Good thing, too as it was needed for a presentation
on Wednesday.
Douglas Gennetten <douglas_...@hp.com.zzzzzzzzzzzz> wrote in article
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> Eugene Mroz wrote:
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> > Which printer(s) (inkjet or otherwise) put the best quality photos on
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> > plain paper?
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