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Category Archives: Printers

Being selective can cost you short term, but long term?

Wednesday, November 9, 2011

If you’re proud of the work you do it stands to reason that accuracy and quality are very important to you, right? If you weren’t concerned about being accurate and producing quality results I highly doubt you could be super proud. At least that’s how I think. Sometime being picky about what you produce can [...]

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Name dropping

Tuesday, August 16, 2011

Today’s going to be a busy one. Actually it already is. I’ve been in the shop since 8 a.m. A lot to do. While I wait for a canvas to come off I thought I’d fill you in on what a busy day looks like here, and some of the types of folks I deal [...]

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Don’t discuss Costco, Wal-Mart, Walgreens, or any of the rest with me. I’m done, I’m out

Monday, August 15, 2011

I just received an urgent correspondence from a new client regarding prints. They’d done a shoot for friends, did their post production, and sent off a CD. The friends got back in touch. They’d had the images printed at Costco. The images were total crap. Super dark, colors way off, etc. Now the new client [...]

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When paper has value

Tuesday, August 9, 2011

My life often seems to be dominated by paper. Breathing Color, Canon, Red River, Lexjet, and more. There’s some of the paper in my life. I buy it, print on it, and the final results hold more value than the original cost of the paper. Good deal. There’s a lot of other paper in my [...]

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What type of realestate does a photographer actually need?

Thursday, December 30, 2010

Over the past two years I’ve had a lot of time to consider what the optimal space would be for me. Keep in mind, in addition to photography I also do a ton of Fine Art Giclee reproductions for painters, photographers, and graphic artists as well. So my space requirements are a little different than [...]

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Calibration Day!

Wednesday, November 17, 2010

Okay, I think I’ve just made up a new holiday or something. See, my entire morning was spent calibrating! New print heads, new inks, and not in one printer, but two! And when you swap heads or inks guess what you have to do? Calibrate. The image above shows you all you need to know. [...]

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Cleaning up from a positive film scan – Another step in painting reproductions

Wednesday, November 10, 2010

Recently I posted about part of the process in creating reproductions of paintings. Today we’re going to talk about another part of the process. Positive film scans Often painters have their large paintings photographed on 4×5 positive film. My partner here at the gallery has been doing reproductions of his paintings for years with 4×5 [...]