IOW, each has to judge the importance of every operating aspect of a tool such as an ink jet printer. Quantifying perceived differences between printers, for example, will predictably result in a frustration of vacillation and uncertainty. Eight hours? I'd hold the indoor record for "punchy".
Jack --- Aaron Reynolds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Aug 17, 2006, at 7:13 PM, Jack Davis wrote: > > > If I had the choice between two otherwise identical, equally priced > > printers, I'd choose the one with the smallest droplet size. > > Well, sure, as long as everything else actually is equal -- but > everything else are those hard to quantize in numbers things that > people never think about when shopping. And how do you compare? > > When buying the 7500, I spent eight hours in the showroom making > prints > and drinking coffee. The sales guys were wondering why I wanted to > print these funny images that for the most part lacked punchy, bright > > colours and kept showing me samples with punchy bright colours. > > The 7500 outclassed everything -- it was also the first time I had > seen > something that I would accept as a "photographic print". Of course, > in > those good old days I was looking at eight thousand dollar printers. > > -Aaron > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net

