Re: [photo-3d] Fuji 370 resolution

[Mike Kersenbrock <michaelk@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Gabriel Jacob wrote:
>
> as dithering of the colors, among other things. Dye subs come a close
> second at 300 dpi 

Even better at 600 dpi.  :-)

> except there is the longevity,

My Alps dyesub's haven't faded that I'm aware of, but
I have no intention of trying to fade them.  :-)  Alps's
non-dyesub "ink" (not ink, it's dry film with a pigment/plastic
coating on it, I've technical info somewhere if anybody's interested)
is supposedly tested to be very long term archival, don't know about
the dyesub versions.  It also "prints" an overcoat over the dyesub
print.

>  cost, 

About the same as other (Epson, HP) color printing.


> and banding issue (I'm
> surprised Mike hasn't brought that up!).

Some units band, particularly the low-end MD-1000 model
(which doesn't have dyesub mode), and I've heard of people
who get units with banding problems.  But then, my old Epson
inkjet bands sometimes.  What's new?

Also, in non-dyesub mode, photo-printing really stinks with
my ALPS  MD-1300.  It does B&W text laser-like, and does dyesub
printing photo-like.  But photos using its "regular" non-dyesub
mode stink -- so I don't use them.  I do text or dyesub.  My unit
hasn't had a  banding problem (yet).  Could be that I'm lucky
(or that just some vocal folk have been unlucky).  The MD5000
unit comes with calib. software to do the adjustment to eliminate banding
(the unit prints half-inch swaths, much wider than injets, and the
banding that could occur would be at the half-inch boundaries).


Mike K.

P.S. - I will at some point need a new printer when my current one
       breaks, which it probably will at some point, and with they
       not being sold anymore by Alps, I'm hoping that "these" problems
       will be worked out by then.  Else, my holmes sterecard days
       will be over (not that I've been all that aggressive anyway).