Thanks Matt. Godfrey
On Aug 21, 2007, at 12:27 PM, Matt Johnson wrote: > I use Imageprint and the profiles that are made for that. However I > know a few friends that have had good luck printing straight from > photoshop, my guess is that they use the profiles for cs2 that are on > the red river website. > >> Message: 3 >> Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2007 11:35:34 -0700 >> From: Godfrey DiGiorgi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Subject: Re: Looking for a printer (mostly low-end) >> To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <[email protected]> >> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed >> >> Matt, >> >> A little off topic ... >> >> Do you use a profiled print workflow? Considering the Red River >> paper: Have you found good profiles to use with it? >> >> A friend gave me a few sheets of Red River paper. I like the surface >> but have not yet found profiles that worked well with it. The prints >> I've made that came out best so far were B&W renderings using the >> Advanced B&W settings in the R2400 driver. If I could find some good >> profiles for it, I would buy a box of it and experiment more. >> >> Godfrey >> >> >> On Aug 21, 2007, at 11:10 AM, Matt Johnson wrote: >> >>> Problem is that you don't even get archival till you hit the epson >>> R800 inks and above, and i really don't think highly of that >>> printer. >>> I would maintain a cheap b&w printer like graywolf does, and look >>> into >>> an R1800 (this guy is about $500) or above for your printing your >>> photos, its not that big of a step to get into archival quality >>> (price >>> wise), and atleast your getting something worth the cost of the ink. >>> (Just my 2 cents though) >>> Also you can get into some nicely priced archival paper from places >>> like Red River Paper or Moab. I print almost exclusively Moab, >>> and I'm >>> thinking of getting an Epson 3800 or a lightly used 4000 for >>> home. the >>> 4000 has been replaced by the 4800 now but the 4000 you can get very >>> large 220 ml cartridges for a hundred a piece, and they go forever. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
