B. Peg said:
Thanks. Didn't know about the stabilty.
Prices have come down a lot since they came out.
B~
B - You've just met our very own troll who answers posts like yours without
having used the printers you asked about or personally done a long term
comparison of the prints. He responds with his opinions which are shaped by
his reading of various reviews.
You asked about picoliters. I have an i960 that, I believe, has two
picoliter nozzles. Because it is a six color printer, it is able to make
gradations of cyan and magenta with the light dye load pc and pm inks as
opposed to a printer like the ip4000 (Measekite's printer) which makes light
cyan and light magenta areas by spacing the ink "dots" further apart to show
more of the white paper, giving the appearance of a lighter color. I've
never used the ip4000, but I have heard that the photo prints from it are
quite good. I do have an ip5000 - four color carts like the ip4000 plus the
pigmented black - but the ip5000 has 1 picoliter nozzles. From my personal
experience, I can tell you that it is difficult (or impossible) to tell the
difference between the same print made on the i960 as opposed to the ip5000.
In its generation of printers the i960 was reputed to be one of the best
color photo printers in the Canon line. Of course, there were also two 8
color printers (added red and green) that, I've read, make excellent photo
prints.
Rather than repeat what I have read, I will enclose a link that has one of
the nost comprehensive reviews I have seen on the ip 6700D, the 6700 with
additional features. this review is from someone in the UK, so it also can
print on CD's. It is a glowing report, and it also mentions a negative -
that it tends to produce oversaturated prints with an emphasis on the reds
in skin tones. This was also apparent in the i960, and it took some
experimentation to settle on the best settings to produce a pleasantly
saturated print with realistic skin tones. This did not, by the way,
requite tweaking the color output by adjusting any of the color slide
adjustments. It did require finding the combination of settings that
produced the prints I liked best.
Canon tells us that the new generation of inks in the chipped cartridges
will last longer than the older inks used by printers in the "i" and "iP"
series as they are less prone to fading over time. Since they are also
dye-based inks I am suspicious that their claim is somewhat exagerated. I
would like to see an impartial evaluation of fading of the two generations
of inks to see what the real numbers are in terms of fade resistance.
http://www.photo-i.co.uk/Reviews/interactive/Canon 6700D/page_1.htm