> I'm not sure what you do with all those print, do you sell them? > > I print mostly to hang on my walls in frames, I would not > sell a print made on an Epson or Canon printer, no matter how > many years they say they will last. A real photo print always > matches perfectlyl if I tell them no auto corrections. > It's fast and cheap. I don't need to have a printer around, > don't need to keep extra ink, don't need to keep special > paper, and the Frontier does such a super job of upscaling. > > I had a photo printed on a Frontier to 10" by 15" from a > digital file not even 1000 pixels on the long side, and it > looks super even up close. > > But the best thing is these prints do not need to be behind > glass in order not to fade. I don't have a lot of space for > an extra printer around my office either. > > -- > Jim Davis, Owner, Eastern Beaver Company: >
Hi Jim, I'm a professional photographer, of course I sell them! I don't have anything on my walls in frames, mostly just scrap images to remember how I did something I thought was neat or useful in my work. I sell images output on my R2400 all the time, why else would I print so much? I don't think I'm a great photographer but I try to listen and deliver what the client needs and usually that's all it takes to get a check in the mail for the images and files I provide. I'm in L.A. and around here there is no such thing as a "real photo print" virtually all wet prints are shot out of a laser these days. There are very few conventional optical printers being used in large scale professional print labs these days because they have too many problems and are not repeatable enough. I use a regularly color calibrated system and generally speaking the color I see on my screen is what the printer spits out. This is a much more reliable color system than relying on the lab to produce images the same way every time over along period of time. I don't have to rely on them to do the same thing they did for me last time and usually they don't, even at the best labs in L.A. Humans have almost no color memory and I assure that what you thought you saw on your monitor is NEVER what you get from your lab. Try it, take a file that you think is well adjusted on your system and have your local pro lab print it out once a month for a year. No two prints will be exactly the same and none of them will look like your monitor image except coincidentally. If it were that easy there would not be the huge color calibration and management seminar businesses that colorlabs and pro photographers alike go to and still come away with problems getting what they see on the screen to come out of the printer. I'm very picky about color and IMO every professional photographer should be. Most say they are picky color wise but have no idea what they are looking at. My clients are architects and designers so I have to produce images with accurate color. I've worked as a photographer and at color prep house doing pre-press pre-work. My uncle owned the business and I was trained in all areas of color prep and printing so I have a good understand the color printing process and how color works. I think you may be confused. A chemical print will fade just like a pigment print will fade. The reasons for fading are different for both print technologies but both benefit from being displayed under glass. In dark storage as most images are kept an Epson K3 pigment print will last a very, very long time. HTH! * **** ******* *********************************************************** * For list instructions, including unsubscribe, see: * http://www.a1.nl/phomepag/markerink/eos_list.htm ***********************************************************
