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| Sammickk:
--- Quote from: monjici on June 05, 2014, 11:08:57 AM ---what about using a laser printer ? :) --- End quote --- From what i've been told the laser printers are bad at picture quality. Can someone confirm this? and another bigger con is the Price vs inkjet |
| ClayYTOfficial:
--- Quote from: Ozzy_98 on June 05, 2014, 10:56:42 AM ---I'm sure my comments will be misunderstood and may offend some people who think I'm an arrogant bastard, but in the words of the great Ron Jeremy, "Fuck 'em", I like being helpful, and this is something I've had experience with in the past. There's two main types of printer inks, dyes and pigments, generally only black is dye or pigments, the colors are almost always dye based. Pigment pings do not stick well to glossy and are good for use on matte paper. It's not just the ink though, but also the paper itself. Some will pretty much only accept dye inks. So what I'm betting happened to you, most of the colors looked ok, but the black was all bubbled and washed out? To make it worse, the pigment blacks come in two types, an MK and PK. It's mostly Epson printers that use these, the PK is for photos, the MK is for matte. The PK has extra to make it stick to photo better, but that means less ink for the page. Now for the trick: depending on the printer, some printers use a pigment black for text\matte, and a dye black for photos, OR, mixes the other inks into a black. This is sometimes controlled by the paper type options, so selecting photo\glossy MAY cause it to print using the colored dyes, depends on the printer. --- End quote --- You arrogant arse ... Of course I'm only kidding, and also referencing the same forum topic you are alluding to. ;D I don't know much about these sort of things, and the stuff you were talking about in the other posting, so I enjoy reading what you say and learning more than I knew. So, please, don't stay quiet as you are helping those of us that don't understand it. Sorry for going off topic // I'm out. |
| Ozzy_98:
--- Quote from: bg_gamer on June 05, 2014, 01:23:49 PM ---You arrogant arse ... --- End quote --- I'll fully admit I'm an arrogant bastard. But if I used that as my logo, people would confuse me with an Atari age mod |
| Sammickk:
Dammit my last posts were suppose to be directed at ozzy i realize i said Jake but that was my mistake. |
| monjici:
--- Quote from: Sammickk on June 05, 2014, 11:23:28 AM --- --- Quote from: monjici on June 05, 2014, 11:08:57 AM ---what about using a laser printer ? :) --- End quote --- From what i've been told the laser printers are bad at picture quality. Can someone confirm this? and another bigger con is the Price vs inkjet --- End quote --- I wouldn't print family pictures with a laser printer, but for cover art it does a great job so far. You can see a bit of grain in the gradients when you are look very close (less than a feet), but in reality you would probably look at it from around 18". Pretty much like an LCD TV where you would see the pixels if you are near enough. For the price, it's not was it used to be, I got a printer for 200$ and it came with enough toner to print 100+ covers. Maybe when buying new toner is where it gets pricier, but I didn't do much research on that side. Here's a few pics from star fox cover printed with a color laser printer. Last pic is a bit blurry because I moved the cam a bit. I hope this will help you making your how opinion. One thing for sure, there is no ink bleeding with laser! |
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