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slinkimalinki posted:Do you want one that's easy to carry, op? Does anyone have the original thread linked... I can't remember the printer goon's name.
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I found the textquote:A loose female acquaintance of mine calls me at 1:00am today and asks me if I could print something on the computer for her and bring it over in the afternoon. "Hey yeah sure sure, whatever you need I'll help you, I'm all yours," I tell her. She sends me this file and lo and behold I can't open it. It's made in Microsoft Publisher and I don't have that program so I begin panicing, trying to find this program or a way to print the file. Scouring the internet yields no results and I do my usual pacing in my room.
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Oct 13, 2019 23:20
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Serious answer for graphic and photo printing: Color Laser: Xerox Phaser. Use to be expensive but now retails at ~$250. The expense with color laser comes from toner, and typically the printers are sold with toner cartridges that only have a very small amount of toner in them, so you'll need to buy color toner cartridges with the printer which adds ~$560. They will last a very long time however. Tabloid size would be better but that adds significantly to the cost, size, and weight of the unit (~170 pounds), and adds a lot of "office" type of features you'll probably never use. Color Inkjet: Epson Expression. XP-15000 is tabloid sized and is $300. Again, expense comes from ink cartridge replacements and with Epson, all of their specialty papers which makes a huge difference in print quality. Nowadays they're indistinguishable from lab printed photos (which is actually typical for most ~$100 "all-in-ones" you can buy at places like Staples). For someone like me today's prices floor me. I can remember when these printers themselves were thousands of dollars. Coming from the late 90's there was an technology called MicroDry, made by a company called Alps (which is still in business). It was similar to laser in that it didn't put wet ink on the paper, but used 4 color "ribbons" that put down dry color. The cool thing about this was there were a LOT of different ribbons, including white backing for printing color images on black paper, metallic colors, and gold and silver foil. It was related but not completely the same as dye sub printers (there were "dye sub" ribbons and paper available). The MicroDry technology has been out of wide scale production for around a decade and a half, but they still made the ribbons in Japan up until 2015, when they discontinued everything. quote:The feature yet unsurpassed on MicroDry technology is its ability to print unconventional inks; white, metallic colours and clear (matte or gloss) finish. This feature is especially sought after on modelmaking community for printing decals (which often involve white colour), and also for T-shirt customizing. Neither inkjet nor laser printers can print any other colours than CMYK, as they assume the media is always white. As such, they are not suitable for purposes other than generic home and office printing. MicroDry printers can be used on printing non-white or transparent media, which inkjets or laser printers cannot handle sufficiently well, and they can also handle a variety of media, such as plastic, cardboard or even metals. The second-hand MicroDry printers are much sought after and can be expensive (prices ranging in early 2006 from USD 300 to 700, depending on condition). Edit - apparently this company still sells refurbished printers and ribbons, and have themselves manufactured dozens of different spot color ribbons. They seem to be primarily marketing to model building markets as "decal printers". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWUjEuOaI5k Telebite fucked around with this message at 06:57 on Oct 17, 2019 |
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