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From: phoenix@ms.uky.edu (R'ykandar Korra'ti)
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Subject: Re: HELP request: Ink refills for ink jet printers for Amiga
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Date: 28 Aug 90 21:55:46 GMT
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Reply-To: phoenix@ms.uky.edu (R'ykandar Korra'ti)
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In article <1990Aug28.163034.1428@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu> hgm@ccvr1.ncsu.edu (Hal G. Meeks) writes:
>I have owned a Xerox 4020 for about 2 years now. It's a re-engineered C150
>(has a autoflush mechanism to keep nozzles unclogged).
     It's also much faster than the C150, can address 240 dots per inch (even
if the dot size is too big for it to be of any use :-) ) and I think has
downloadable fonts - none of which the C150 has, unfortunately. Still, for
the price I paid, I'm very very happy with my C150.
>I have been using the Windsor-Newton line of "Brillant Watercolours" for
>over a year now.
     Have you got a place I can mailorder these from? I'm using P. H. Martin's,
and while I'm happy with them (I mainly use black, and that one is just fine
colour-wise - it's a pretty easy one to get) cheaper and more accurate is
always better.
>Incidentally, I'm using the Glass Canvas 4020 driver. I
>don't believe they have one for the C150, unfortunately.
     C150 is one of the standard CBM printer drivers. Has been for just
about forever. In fact, the 1.3 enhancer manual suggests using the C150
driver for the 4020, if I recall correctly.
>Can the C150 use
>the 4020's driver?
     Yes and no. The command languages are mostly the same, but there are
a couple of important differences; the C150 doesn't have the "double-blacking"
capability of the 4020 (this is used to make the blacks blacker, as should
be reasonably obvious :-) ) and also doesn't have the 240 DPI addressing mode.
The latter shouldn't be a problem, but the former would cerainly cause trouble.
     You can get the effect of double-blacking on the C150 by changing the
"black" in your printout from R=0, G=0, B=0 to R=0, G=0, B=4. That way, the
printer will print both black and blue on each dot. It's not quite the same,
but it looks very good.
>Makes the HP Paintjet look sort of washed out.
     I've always been impressed by the colour quality on my C150. Particularly
the blue tones.
>They are available at many Art Supply houses. While there, pick up a can of
>Artist's Fixative (Krylon is the brand I use).
     Krylon is good, but make bloody well sure you clean the nozzle on the
spray can like they suggest. I nearly had a pencil illustration (that was
going to the printers _that_ _day_) ruined by a bottle of Krylon flat that
suddenly decided to spurt big globs of fixitive. Taught me to clean nozzles.
(This can be fixed by essentially drowning the entire illustration in yet
more fixitive, by the way - but do it right off. It won't fix everything,
but it'll help a lot - and will be good enough to print.)
>It will help make your
>printouts a little more fade and moisture resistant (I've actually made a
>6foot outdoor sign that held up in a light drizzle).
     If you want (and are in a pinch, and are cheap - like me - and the
object in question isn't expected to last forever), you can use hair spray.
Really. Aquanet does a great job, and it's 99 cents per BIG bottle. (Fair
warning: I haven't tried Aquanet on printouts, but it works so well on pencil
and charcoal that I don't see why it wouldn't work.)
                                                        - R'ykandar.
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