Re: [Leica] The Joy of the Darkroom and Thanks!

[Henry Ambrose <henryambrose@home.com>]

>julianthomas@terra.es (julianthomas.terra.es)1/11/0110:25 PM
>
>> Epson 7000 which give you cone
>> up to 24inches wide and Cone's own which will give you HUGE
>prints. Mind
>> you, you'll also need the drum scanner to get decent scans ;-)
>
>And the cost to set up is?
>or
>The cost for Cone to print is?
>
>The last time (1997 or 8) I farmed out for a "fine art" print
>from an IRIS Printer = $175 for 11x14. :-(
>
>George
>
>
A friend bought one of the Epson 7000s a few months ago. 
It was under $4000.00. 
It makes big cool prints when he feeds it MF 
scans from his Imacon. He's using color inks.

For 35mm you can set up an Epson 1160 with Piezo and continous 
inking system for under $1000.00 It will print up to 13" wide paper. 
Then print slightly more than 12X18 image area. The prints are really 
good.

Or buy a 1270 and use the Epson inks and paper. 
This is what I have (along with a 3000 and 1200) and I'm quite pleased 
with it. I do color and toned B&W.

One of the above and a 4000 ppi film scanner is about as good as it gets 
for 
35mm B&W digital. (that normal people can afford)

Henry Ambrose