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SubjectRe: converting raw images from Canon EOS 600D
FromEric Stevens
Date12/01/2013 03:59 (12/01/2013 15:59)
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FollowsJ. Clarke
On Sat, 30 Nov 2013 20:20:05 -0500, "J. Clarke" <jclarkeusenet@cox.net>wrote:

J. Clarke
In article <a8uk99t5g857iuuo7q7rc705mf3l9kll82@4ax.com>, eric.stevens@sum.co.nz says...

Eric Stevens
On Sat, 30 Nov 2013 17:43:48 -0500, "J. Clarke" <jclarkeusenet@cox.net>wrote:

J. Clarke
In article <201311301350242657-savageduck1@REMOVESPAMmecom>, savageduck1 @{REMOVESPAM}me.com says...

Savageduck
On 2013-11-30 21:38:17 +0000, Eric Stevens <eric.stevens@sum.co.nz>said:

Eric Stevens
On Sat, 30 Nov 2013 09:55:32 -0500, PeterN <peter.newnospam@verizon.net>wrote:

PeterN
Many a fine art print has been made with the 2880 and 3880. IMO the 4880 is designed for higher output. I may have been told wrong, but i thought the 4880 produced prints that were equal in quality to the other two, but was designed for higher production rates, and larger format.

Eric Stevens
... and roll feed.

Savageduck
The R2880 can deal with 13'' x 32' & 13'' x 20' rolls supplied by Epson, Red River Paper, or Moab.

J. Clarke
The 2880 is 13", the 3880 and 4880 are 17". The 4880 is apparently discontinued in favor of the 4900.

The 4880 takes 220ml inks vs 80 for the 3880, is designed to take 132 foot rolls, and has a cutter. It also according to the specs typically prints twice as fast.

While the 3880 can be made to print on rolls the lack of a cutter makes it marginal for production use with roll-feed paper.

Eric Stevens
I wasn't aware of that. How is it done?

J. Clarke
By the way, using rolls and printing panoramas is different. The 3880 can use rolls instead of cut sheets to make standard sized prints--I don't know if it can print panoramas on roll paper, so we may be going at cross purposes.

The manual for the 38xx printers states that the Automatic Sheet Feeder (ASF) and the rear manual feeder will accept a maximum length of 950mm. The front manual feed will accept 594 mm. When printing on a sheet is finished, the sheet is ejected.

With a roll feed on the back, either the printer will try to eject the entire length of the roll or, more likely it will eject the maximum length of sheet (depending on from where it is fed). This last will mean that after the print is cut off there will be a tongue of unprinted paper to be dragged back through the printer.

I think if I wanted to use roll paper I would buy the 4900 which is designed for it rather than put up with the problems of making the sow's ear into a silk purse. --

Regards,

Eric Stevens