P3D Re: Epson 740 printer

[jacob@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Gabriel Jacob)]

Michael Amundson writes:
>By the way, the printer goes for $279. It take about 5 minutes for a top
>quality image but less than 90 seconds for a pretty good one.

Yea, price and quality is very good but they get you on the ink! ;-) If you
print many images you'll soon have spend more on ink than on the printer.
It costs roughly $1 a page to print a full 8x10 color image. This doesn't
include the cost of the paper. Initially I had skimped on buying the
"expensive" paper until I soon realized this was a minor factor in the
costs (compared to cost of the ink) and the results are much better with
the higher quality papers.

Having gone through quite a few of these ink cartridges I'm looking at
a few promising options. One of them is trying the refilling route. It's
cheaper but I still haven't determined if the quality is as good or as
resistant to fading. Time will tell I guess. Anyone have any experience
to share with using refill or third party inks (instead of EPSON brand
ink) to produce anaglyphs with inkjets?

Gabriel


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