[Leica] How low does pigment go?

[mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)]

As I have just gotten this month about 4 new carts for my 3800 your
suggestion to just upgrade to the 3880 makes extra sense for me as I'm in a
sense getting 200 dollars off using those carts as needed. Its just that's
not going to happen its too much money for a big thing which I don't really
need nor can afford nor can put in a bus or cab with me to get fixed should
it need be.
I'm inspired by the show I just saw and is still up at the NY Leica gallery
of flowers black and white and full color:
- Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe "A Flower is a Lovesome Thing / Notables of Note"
In which her large prints were I think 13 by 19's and many were smaller and
it was all looking fine.
My past shows were 16x20 darkroom prints and I was seeing less and less
shows done with 11x14's. So I was happy about getting that 3800.
Now in an interim phase I do think a 13 inch printer for half the money and
more compact might do me well.
If I get lucky ands some gallery is scaled to large prints I'll then move up
to a 17 inch printer I can see that happening in a year or two.

Hoppy and others do you think an R3000 would be a step down quality wise
from the 3880? I'm guessing no as I continue to look into it.

In the mean while I'm looking at infusing my portfolios  with small prints
made with a dye based printer. On rag paper as usual which they make for
them. I suppose using such printers I'd be smart to do less black and white
and more color.
I carry around 5x7's in my Domke satchel where ever I go for years now.
They are great for showing people a few of your prints on a bus or
restaurant and seem impressive without looking like an overly big deal. And
I can afford better better which I like.

Id run so many nozzle checks in the past few years that I've must have blown
hundreds of dollars worth of pigment into my maintain ace carts. That's what
happens with a less than happy printer.

A printer that size to bring in to get tweaked or CLA'd by a maintenance
place is quite a production.
I think a 13 inch printer I could carry on the bus.

13 x19s are more like 16x20's run through the dryer than bionic 11x14's.
I'm happy about them. I already have a portfolio with that sized prints in
it.

Thanks for looking

-- 
Mark R.
http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/


> From: Geoff Hopkinson <hopsternew at gmail.com>
> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2011 12:16:08 +1000
> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> Subject: Re: [Leica] How low does pigment go?
> 
> If you get the 3880 most of your existing cartridges will fit (if you have
> good ones remaining) .
> Any custom profiles for the 3800 won't work of course.
> My 3800 died eventually too and labour and parts for print heads would have
> nearly equalled new replacement cost here.
> So nice now to run a nozzle check before a print and see a perfect pattern
> each time.
> 
> Cheers
> Geoff
> 
> *Lighting- eyes- action*
> http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman
> 
> 
> 
>> On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 6:12 PM, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com>
>>> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> How low does pigment go?
>>>> My Epson 3800 has bit the farm after 5 years. The past years have not
>>>> really
>>>> worked. I need something to buff up my 5x7 inch portfolio before a key
>>>> visitor see's it and that's in a few weeks.
>>>> I also need to print my laundry list.
>>>> I may have to stray outside Epson.
>>>> 
>>>> I guess in a few months I'll get the
>>>>  Epson Stylus Photo R3000 Inkjet Printer
>>>> 
>>>> I see a Canon letter sized ( 8.5 inch wide) for 89  bucks but it I'm
>> sure
>>>> prints dye not pigment.
>>>> I'm hoping some quirk has made one of those guys come out with a cheap
>>> mini
>>>> which is a pigment based printer form.
>>>> 
>>>> --
>>>> Mark R.
>>>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/
>>>> 
>> 
> 
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