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Aug 17, 2007 8:43 AM by
smax013
Line Art
A couple of points that you have to consider. You mentioned uncoated art paper. If I'm not mistaken, that would have a fairly course texture and is absorbant. Using an inkjet would have a tendency to blur.
The tighter the finish, the sharper an inkjet would be. However, coated paper would slow down the drying and it would be subjet to smearing.
Laserjets do not use ink, but use toner. Again, the smoother and tighter the finish, sharper a laserjet would be. However, if the uncoated art paper is course in texture, then the laserjet image would tend to have small skips.
Up until 20 years ago, fine linen business letterhead paper was course and had a texture to it. The more the texture, the finer the paper. Impact printers and typewriters were unaffected since they pushed down the texture when the text was put on the paper, and the texture would rebound afterward.
With the advent of lasers, the fine business letterhead paper has become smoother with less and less texture - because of the laser images.
The tighter the finish, the sharper an inkjet would be. However, coated paper would slow down the drying and it would be subjet to smearing.
Laserjets do not use ink, but use toner. Again, the smoother and tighter the finish, sharper a laserjet would be. However, if the uncoated art paper is course in texture, then the laserjet image would tend to have small skips.
Up until 20 years ago, fine linen business letterhead paper was course and had a texture to it. The more the texture, the finer the paper. Impact printers and typewriters were unaffected since they pushed down the texture when the text was put on the paper, and the texture would rebound afterward.
With the advent of lasers, the fine business letterhead paper has become smoother with less and less texture - because of the laser images.
Jonah wrote:Thank you both for your replies - I will do as you suggest and try out the papers in some machines - perhaps I will see if a store will allow me to test some samples in various printers before I buy.
But can anyone recommend a particular model of laser printer for printing graphics and line art? The reviews of inkjet printers all discuss their image quality, but most reviews of laser printers focus on text quality and printing speed, and hardly mention graphics at all.
But can anyone recommend a particular model of laser printer for printing graphics and line art? The reviews of inkjet printers all discuss their image quality, but most reviews of laser printers focus on text quality and printing speed, and hardly mention graphics at all.
It has been a LONG time since I remember seeing a review in one of my main stream computer magazines talk about print quality (either in text or graphics) in great detail. Frankly, I have been less than impressed with many of the "review" or comparison articles that come in current mainstream computer magazines.
You might see if you can find a magazine that caters to desktop publishers and/or graphic artists and see if they have some reviews.
Beyond that, I am not much help on print quality. A page from one laser printer looks much the same to any other laser printer to me...and I doubt it would matter too much even if I could notice some difference.
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