Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/03/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]When I'm not mucking with the printer and inks itself (hate that, drives me nuts when it doesn't work), inkjet printing is a total blast when I "get into the zone." I use MIS inks on a cheap C86 and PWP, which so far provides more capabilities than I've had the time or inclination to master. I love futzing around with the different variables and making different prints, trying to get it just right and what not. Just don't know what to do with all the prints :-) Scott Mark Rabiner wrote: [snip] > >So they are either (what I call) printing to monitor for their website and >emails. Just tweaking density and contrast for the most part. >Or they are printing to inkjet. And a lot of people don't care for that. >I know at least one local guy who I've known for 25 years who has had a 2200 >for well over a year and not one print to show for it. From it. Not one. His >one inkjet he's got in his stack of prints he had done custom at a pro lab. >Although he does have that STACK OF PRINTS. >As in big prints. A portfolio even. > >Lots of "weekend photo warriors" are not into it for the follow through. The >accountability. The want to make it go "click" and have "Kodak to the rest". > >The very same people are also too chinsey to shell out for a stack of custom >8x10's to show people it goes without saying. Except for that first >acquaintance I just mentioned with the 2200. > >It's snapshot-city machine-prints from the get-go with most people even >those you meet on most fairly advanced sounding photo lists. >But I guess they're making it so picking your 4x6's from the drugstore or >wherever has gotten digital as well. They say "Kodak" on the back and >everything and are semigloss borderless. > >Except yesterday at the local "Shutterbug" where I was looking for camera >bags as usual there was a lady who was standing there watching a machine >crunch out her snapshots. It was loud! I think she was the one who made it >happen. Put her CompactFlash card in or something. Set up a few parameters >and perambulators. >I guess there's a new art form - work around - printing process... > >WALGREEN'S PRINTING > >Mark Rabiner >Photography >Portland Oregon >http://rabinergroup.com/ > > > > >_______________________________________________ >Leica Users Group. >See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > >