See http://www.luminous-landscape.com/reviews/printers/phatte-black.shtml
for supposed good solution to the problem.
br
Jez
On 1/16/06, Chuck Norcutt <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> He had hoped to be able to do black & white (using special gray scale
> inks) as well as color but it has proven to be totally impractical to
> change out the inks. The ink is fed from the cartridges to the print
> heads in plastic tubes that are a couple of feet long. These tubes are
> so long that they hold about $200 worth of ink. Changing from color to
> B&W or vice-versa wastes the amount of ink that's in the tubes. $200 to
> make an ink change was something he had not counted on. The printer
> does very fine work but is now used for color only.
>
> Chuck Norcutt
>
>
> NSURIT@xxxxxxx wrote:
>
> >
> > In a message dated 1/15/2006 11:06:54 P.M. Central Standard Time,
> > jjohnso4@xxxxxxxxxx writes:
> >
> > Which model are you considering buying? I almost pulled the trigger
> > on a model 4800 when they were on sale right before Christmas. I
> > reconsidered when I realized how huge it is compared to my 1280 and I
> > started looking for a place to put it.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > I was thinking 4800, until I saw them and looked at the price difference
> > between it and the 7800 and was leaning toward the 7800 for roughly $1000
> > extra.
> > The stand comes with the 7800 and is $350 with the 4800. The 4800 gives me
> > an extra 4" and the 7800 gives an extra 11 inches. Given that buying
> > either
> > is a move toward selling large prints, the 7800 looks like the right choice
> > (I have a friend with a 9800 if I needed really big prints). Even though I
> > have an offer of $200 off the 7800, I'm going to wait a bit. Bill Barber
> >
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