Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/09/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]As I was saying I was up all night printing. On a roll so to speak. Didn't mention I didn't do it with a line of trays in by bathtub and an enlarger on my toilet. Can't claim to have ever done that. I bet Ted has! Who else? I did it with my new 88 dollar Epson Stylus Photo R220 I just picked up from Staples down the street. 20th in Queens NY. I've eschewed Hahnem?hle photo rag for a far superior printing media. Its made by Avery. Its called Matte White Clean Edge Business Cards 8877 Ink Jet Extra sturdy matte coated business cards with no perforated edges 400 cards 2" x 3.5" I think maybe 20 bucks. After printing up a bunch of cards I started experimenting with putting photos in them. By 5AM I had 100 biz cards each with a different image in them. Business Card Composer 4 is more fun than I don't know what. The images involved are about the best I've ever done in any media. But give me another cup of coffee. Clear as a bell and with blacks I never got with Amidol and grey fingernails. I already have an existing portfolio by the way in 2" x 3.5". Printed on Hahnem?hle with my 2200. So much for pigment. I asked an expert a month or so ago, Paul Roark, http://home1.gte.net/res0a2zt/photos.html from the digital black and white printing list which sub hundred buck printer to get to knock out some prints out of my motel room and although Paul is an expert probably THE expert in Carbon-Pigment Printing he told me to get the 220 Epson. There's a Epson Stylus C88+ for 88 bucks which uses pigment inks but he told me to get the 220 for 99 bucks which uses ink inks. I didn't argue with him. I'm not prone to. The Epson 220 has 6 carts the Epson 88+ 4 carts. I figured that might be the reason. Also the 220 is relatively speaking just out. The 88 has just about had it. Closed out. MARKED DOWN!!! As Bette Midler would not want to say. Anyway I don't know what the pigment vs. ink vs. carbon deal all goes down to. I know that you can get better color saturation with ink than pigment. But then I'm basically a black and white guy. And I think the archival issues with ink are probably relatively speaking insurmountable. So I'm making here today gone tomorrow 2" x 3.5" mini masterpieces and loving it. Cant wait to check out the Avery site and see what other stuff they've got. Breaking up these little puppies which are 10 cards per sheet into little units of 2" x 3.5" photoness is more fun than ... I forgot what. There may be a clarity you get with ink you don't get with pigment but I maybe something you get with an up to the minute machine you don't get with one from a few years back. I forgot to put my GPS coordinates on my cards! I think I'll NOT redo them all night but drop a couple of Contac cold pills and catch some zzz's with the sun down for a change. Mark Rabiner 40?46'56.34"N 73?49'32.25"W Queens http://rabinergroup.com/