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To: Tumbleweed who wrote (7801)	10/23/1999 8:49:00 AM
From: Ausdauer	Respond to of 60323

Joe, re: printers I bought an Epson 740 printer this summer for my Father-in-Law and now see that it is being phased out. The price in the U.S. for this device is under $150.00 right now. That is, they are practically giving them away. The costs related to consumables such as glossy paper and ink cartridges is where they really profit. This printer is nice in that only a single set of print cartridges is need (rather than specific photographic cartridges) and the individual dots are very small...in the range of 6 picoliters. The successor will be able to lay down 3 picoliter droplets! I like the idea of being able to set the printer up to do 4 x 6's on photographic (glossy) paper and then selecting only the best images for hard copies. Has anybody tried any of the on-line photo services? I understand they do high quality images from photos you e-mail to them at a very reasonable cost. Ausdauer SanDisk...See the Big Picture

To: Tumbleweed who wrote (7801)	10/23/1999 11:58:00 AM
From: Art Bechhoefer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 60323

Joe, as to the operating costs for Epson printers, I find that it's not too high when compared with alternatives. I'm getting about 50 to 100 letter size color pages, containing mostly photos, from a color cartridge costing about $26, or about 25 to 50 cents per page. I'm using HP premium inkjet paper for most photos, at about 10 cents per sheet. For higher quality, I'm using an Eaton/Southworth photo paper with glossy on one side and matte on the other, at about 50 cents per sheet. So, at the most, I'm spending about $1.00 per print up to 8 x 10 inches. If you print conventional color negatives on 8 x 10, you'll probably pay somewhere between $6 and $8 per print, and unless you do the work yourself, you'll have no control over cropping, color balance, etc. So my conclusion is that the available printers, cartriges, and papers for digital photos are now the alternatives of choice, based on price AND quality. Art