[Leica] the future happened yesterday

[locke at straylight.ca (Greg Locke)]

...but I suspect you waste less paper with digital than "wet" printing due
to the fact (or supposed to be fact) that you do the work ("test prints") on
screen and "SHOULD" only have to make one print.

I'm someone who hated the wet darkroom and only hate "computer printing"
marginally less. 
Printing has names Goss and Heidleberg.

You see, I used to have the best job in the world. People would pay me to
travel places, make pictures on slide film and SEND THEM the film to be
processed!! 

...and then they send them back all processed, mounts labeled and in nice
plastic sheets ready for the file cabinet hangers.

How cool is that????
How lazy is that!!!!

Now I have to work at a computer, everyone wants me to scan my slides for
them.

...I'm old enough now to have some "good ol' days".

Greg Locke
St. John's, Newfoundland
http://blog.greglocke.com

> -----Original Message-----
> From: lug-bounces+locke=straylight.ca@leica-users.org 
> [mailto:lug-bounces+locke=straylight.ca@leica-users.org] On 
> Behalf Of B. D. Colen
> Sent: Thursday, September 02, 2004 12:29 PM
> To: 'Leica Users Group'
> Subject: RE: [Leica] the future happened yesterday
> 
> The HP 7960 is certainly a budget printer in terms of the 
> cost of the unit, but there's nothing 'budget' about the 
> black and white print quality - it really does produce the 
> equal of custom RC black and whites right out of the box. 
> Sadly, there is also nothing budget about the cost-per-print 
> of those images when you factor in ink costs and print costs. 
> Because to get archival prints, and top image quality, you do 
> need to use a top HP paper or the equivalent.