R
Raphael Bustin
ALPS had a good reputation.
ALPS printers were garbage, compared even to the
inkjet printers at the time. A poor implementation of
a ribbon-based dye-sub design.
I bought an Alps MD-1000 and returned it about a week
later -- after seeing how much better the output was from
an Epson Stylus Color 600. That was about 1999 or so.
Color depth and color uniformity were awful. And if you
didn't use an adequately smooth paper surface, you
ended up with white "pits" in the output where no
pigment was deposited. Banding was nasty -- so all
the ALPS "test images" had bright colors and nothing
but detail. God forbid you should have a patch of
clear blue sky in your image.
rafe b
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