FOR ALL THOSE PEOPLE WHO MAKE COMMENTS ABOUT THE ALPS BANDING YOU ARE WRONG.I HAVE HAD THE MD 500 FOR EIGHT MONTHS AND ABOUT 400 PRINTS LATER IT IS STILL GOING GREAT.IT IS TRUE PHOTO QUALITY AND I AM VERY FUSSY. MOST PEOPLE GO TO A COMP USA TO SEE IT WORK AND IF YOU THINK ABOUT THE NO KNOWLEGABLE PEOPLE TOUCHING IT THEN YOU CAN UNDERSTAND WHY IT DOESNT WORK RIGHT. THEY OPEN COMPARMENTS THEY KNOW NOTHING ABOUT TOUCH PRINT HEADS NOT KNOWING WHAT THEY ARE DOING AND BINGO IT IS BROKEN.WHEN YOU BUY ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT AND YOU DO NOT KNOW WHAT YOU ARE DOING READ THE INSTRUCTIONS. FOLLOW THEM TO THE LETTER. DONT PULL ON SOMETHING UNLESS YOU KNOW YOU CAN. ELECTRONIC GEAR IS SENSITIVE. SO IF YOU WANT A PRINTER THAT PRINTS REAL PHOTOS ALPS IS THE ONE. I MUST ADMIT THE NEW EPSON HAVE IMPROVED OVER MY 1520 AND IF THEY HAD THE FADE RESISITENCE AND WATER PROOF MY ALPS DOES I WOULD THINK OF IT AS MY PHOT PRINTER.BY THE WAY I AM BUYING THE EPSON 900 FOR MY BUSINESS BECAUSE IT PRODUCES GREAT WORK. IN THIS CASE I DO NOT NEED IT TO LAST BUT A MONTH.

-- PHILIP LOMBARDI (PHILI1@IDT.NET), May 27, 1999

Answers

Congratulations that you have no problem with MD5000. My profession is textile design related and I have handled more than a hundred printers in my career. They range from $200 inkjets to $50,000 high end color laser. Disregarding slow printing and high cost per print, MD5000 provides the best print quality among printers in that price range ($500-600). However, it is one of those printers cause me problem from time to time. Its worse than some old dot matrix printers to me. Glad to hear that someone has no problem with this great printer. Amy Lee

-- Amy Lee (amy@euroamericantextile.com), May 28, 1999.