November/December 1998

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Should You Buy an Epson Color Inkjet Printer?

Graphics Arts Professionals

• Epson color printers to do prepress comps in house at a far lower cost and greater convenience than sending them to a service bureau.
• Epson printers create very impressive presentations (for really important presentations try the Epson Film, an opaque plastic stock, which costs several dollars a sheet but gives brilliant colors.)
• Epsons are excellent for high quality, short run output on a variety of stocks, including real canvas that has an inkjet coating.
• No other color printers of any kind approach the image quality of the Epson Stylus Color and Stylus Photo inkjet printers

SO/HO and Home Users

• Epson printers can be quirky and frustrating.
• Epson cartridges are very expensive and cannot be refilled
• Therefore, if you do not need photo quality output, you might be better to get an HP inkjet and PowerPrint from Infowave to use it with the Mac.
• If your principal output is text, you should have a laser printer because:
  1. Laser printers are faster, more reliable, and normally have a much longer and trouble free service life than inkjets.
  2. Lasers printers create an unsmudgeable surface.
  3. Laser printers can get their best quality output on inexpensive paper, where as inkjet printers only produce high resolution "laser quality" printingon coated paper at about 10¢ per page.
  4. Laser cartridges cost far less per page than inkjet cartridges

D'Lynn

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