The big roll of Exhibition Fiber arrived. I loaded it into the 9800, and spent half an hour lifting and lowering handles until all the Matte Black ink was washed away and the printer was fully charged with Photo Black. Then I printed the big picture for the show. It looks great. Looking at it… [Read More]
Archives for 2013
Cropping and Poker
One of the first things you try to learn when you start playing poker is that the money that you have already put in the pot is not your money any more. If you think of it as your money, you’ll hold on to hands that you should fold. Similarly, when deciding whether to sell… [Read More]
A vacation from “good enough”
I’m printing the takeaway sheets for the In Motion show today. These takeaway sheets have artists’ and curators’ statements on one side, and print and book details and pricing on the other. I’m printing them on smooth 28 pound stock, and I’m using the Epson 4900. It would go a lot faster on another printer,… [Read More]
“Staccato” exhibition, part 7
If I had any sense, I’d farm the big print out to a service bureau. I really like to do all my printing myself. It may be that I’m a photographic control freak, or maybe just overly perfectionistic, but there it is. So I’m committing myself to the time consuming and expensive operation of changing… [Read More]
“Staccato” exhibition, part 6
I exported the images from Lightroom to a new directory, keeping the color space ProPhoto and using psd as the file format. I opened Photoshop and used the batch feature of Perfect Resize to get the 16 smaller images to native printer resolution. I made a pot of tea while the program did its work…. [Read More]