AG,
First off sorry for picking up a old thread.
What do you think of the likely future introduction of a 17" wide HP
Designjet with on demand profiling built in? Perhaps it is not a solution
for you or my portrait volume work which I would agree is still best
outsourced. But would it be an option for the fine arts side of your trade?
The Z series Designjet range is the future of high end inkjets in my
opinion.
I don't know how much this beast will run when it does appear. I wish there
was more info about it out there as it played into my decision to get a mid
sized printer this week. I finally went with the Canon pro9000 as it appears
to have less issues with only occasional use. Right now I don't know how
much I will be putting through it and the pigment vs. dye ink argument was
close enough to my eyes that machine reliability was paramount.
Cameta had the pro9000 at under $400 via Amazon. I tried to buy locally at a
Staples store hoping that their price match would save me the shipping time.
Turns out their policy is not as good as it appears, local store managers
can decide on what and if they will match the price :( .
Dan S.
-----Original Message-----
From: olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of AG Schnozz
Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2007 8:29 PM
To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [OM] why not - DIY printing
There are days when I look at my monthly bill from the lab and I wonder if I
could print my own for less money. I don't consider myself a second-rate
hack at printing, so I think "sure, why not?"
<snip>
Now, granted, this is specific to wedding and portrait work where volume and
turn-around time is important. There are cheeper pro-labs out there (WHCC
for example), but the tradeoffs aren't worth it.
For the large art-prints, I do have an issue. Costs of megaprints are sky
high. By the time I get the options I want the cost of a 24x30 or 30x40
could pay for a printer in short order. One 30x40 art-print can cost me as
much as $220. However, I have to look at the quantity of megaprints that I'm
selling and ask myself if the cost savings justifies the commitment? I ran
the numbers a few months ago and determined that I could justify the printer
IF I inhouse printed ALL of my prolab printing. Ugh. And lose all the
benefits that I outlined above?
A couple of days ago I ventured into a local printshop. This place has a
high-end pigment inkjet printer capable of 6-foot wide, by roll-length
pictures. Hmm. Sweet! Ok, let's start looking at the output samples they
have. Not-so-sweet. Why is it that they laminate most of the pictures? We
won't even talk about paper options... I kindly thanked them for their time
and slowly backed my way out the door.
AG
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