Forum: Bryce


Subject: What kind of printer???

redemptionX opened this issue on May 07, 2001 ยท 9 posts


rockjockjared posted Thu, 10 May 2001 at 7:16 PM

Rob, good point about the fading! HP has a solution for that though...but it's rather pricey excessive. Their large format printers 24" and above come with dye type ink (similar to what most other inkjets have in them.) However, for about $250 a cartridge (these printers take 6 of them) you can get UV ink which is guaranteed not to fade for 5 years in direct sunlight! Plus you can get the UV paper too which adds a couple more years on to this. Unfortionately these printers are pretty high. I believe they start at around $5000 and go on up from there...but they are truely large format printers (largest size is 62" that's a little over 5 feet!) so these things are mainly for commercial artists and poster printers. Again, if you are selling your work don't do it on InkJets. They have too much dither and won't look near as good as a laser...you get what you pay for though! Jared