Simple. Shoot your OM gear more, and do analogue prints in the darkroom.
I haven't printed a photograph digitally for 5 years now.
:-)
On 19 Mar 2011, at 2:27 PM, Chuck Norcutt wrote:
> When I have a lot of prints to do I send them off for conventional
> processing. But I still do make some prints with my two HP printers
> which, despite being relatively low cost units, have 5 ink colors
> and do
> a nice job printing on HP photo paper. It gives me good color balance
> with no balancing hassles.
>
> Since I have a small laser printer for non-photo printing I don't do
> much printing with the ink jets. While I've never been happy with the
> price of ink it hasn't been particularly upsetting since I don't use a
> great deal of it. But yesterday I went to Staples to get a
> replacement
> for the large black cartridge (an HP 564XL) and I was greeted by the
> following notice on the package... "NEW lower price, smaller size. Up
> to 2X more pages".
>
> Well, they didn't change the product name. XL is supposed to mean
> "extra
> large". They're claiming that the XL delivers twice the page count of
> the standard cartridge but it used to be much more than that. I'd
> have
> preferred that they just increase the price. Now I have to change
> cartridges more frequently with more time and expense in acquiring
> them.
>
> How do I fight back? Third party ink suppliers and profiling of ink
> and
> papers?
>
> Chuck Norcutt
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