Category Archives: Wide Format Printing

Whatever happened to service?

Thursday, June 17, 2010

Ah, for this post I’m feeling a little aggravated. So, it’s a vent post. First off, I’m not including any company names yet, but I’m getting close. I’ll give these folks a chance to make things right, and we’ll go from there. 3 weeks ago I noted that the Z3100 was feeling poorly.  Bottom line, [...]

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The pluses and minuses of your own photography and print business

Thursday, June 3, 2010

You know, I’ve had many folks more than a little curious about what I now do for a living. And by “for a living” I mean that loosely. Getting a small business off the ground and rooted in major success takes time. Today for instance I’ve already been dealing with major victories and major defeats [...]

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Do you really know how to export your photos?

Monday, May 31, 2010

Last week I ran across a problem that I’ve been seeing more and more. One of my regular clients (and new friend as well) showed up with a few images for me to print. He needed a few 24×36″ photo floats. I started looking at his images and noted something.  They were all 72dpi.  Uh….how [...]

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Color Matching is everything

Thursday, May 13, 2010

The past few weeks have been…..well, quiet. And quiet is never something you want when operating a small business. It also gets a little discouraging. Fortunately, just when you’re feeling a little too discouraged something usually happens.  Sometimes it pushes you over into the “dismal” zone beyond discourage, and sometimes something happens that makes you [...]

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And the results are in…..

Wednesday, May 12, 2010

I know, I know….it’s supposed to be a day off, but here I am typing away from the gallery. What can I say, I have no life…… As I noted quickly yesterday, Red River’s new Polar Pearl Metallic showed up late in the day at the gallery.  I had really wanted to give it a [...]

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The Red River Metallic Paper has arrived!

Tuesday, May 11, 2010

30 minutes later than I had hoped. See, I’m off today. Almost the entire day has been spent on a video project for a client. You know, creating a cool DVD presentation out of hundreds of still images and some short video clips he shot with his Canon G11. When my video work was finally [...]

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Red River’s Polar Metallic will be here next week

Thursday, May 6, 2010

So, Red River has the new Polar Metallic paper available on rolls.  This morning I entered an order for a 17 in wide roll.  It’ll be here next week. Personally, I’ll be testing out several new ghost town prints on it, and I’ll also be running a new print that I haven’t published here yet.  [...]

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