We're on opposite ends of the spectrum, Bruce. I love prints. I'm estimating that this R2400 printer has made on the order of 11,000 prints (in all sizes) since I bought it in October 2005. It's still working beautifully.
This year in particular, I've been on a "two fine prints per week" program, mining my photo archives of the past decade and some to make a regularly sized set of at least 100 prints for the year. I print my cards, client prints, and other folio and exhibition pieces here at home too. There's no way I could afford to send all this stuff out to a print service, and I wouldn't get the same control of the print process if I did. Never mind the time involved. I don't know off-hand how many prints I've sold, but it's a steady trickle every year … It's certainly paid for the printer, as well the ink and paper consumed by printing them. I'm not a huge-print fan, though. I'm deciding between the R3880 and the P600, and I think I'm going to stick with the P600 size as I print larger than 13x19 so infrequently. I usually gang-print two or four images at a time onto 13x19 paper and cut to size; the R3880 would allow some greater efficiencies in doing that but the added cost of the printer and inksets offset the efficiencies in the negative direction. G > On Apr 18, 2015, at 8:04 AM, Bruce Walker <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Sat, Apr 18, 2015 at 7:37 AM, Paul Stenquist <[email protected]> > wrote: >> I will probably go for the 3880 (or the next version of the wide printer) >> when my 2880 dies. But I can print 13 x 19s affordably with the 2880 inks. >> My cost per print is about $3. But I would like to print bigger. The 2880, >> which is very similar to the 3000 and preceded it, is my fourth Epson >> printer. They don't last indefinitely, but I used to make more than 1000 19 >> x 13s annually. I'm slowing down in old age :-) > > Wow. I'd be surprised if I've made more than 50 prints in total in 8 > years of digital shooting. > > I was going to remark that I have only ever used printing services (my > fave has both a 44" wide and a 60" wide printer and a good selection > of paper and other media) and I find it very cost-effective, but I can > easily see if I was printing in these quantities I'd want a home > printer too. > > And I have only ever sold a handful of prints, so there's an area I > will perhaps one day explore too. > > -- > -bmw -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
