Epson 4800 and Beyond
Timing: In case you care about such things, I just printed my first 16 x 24 inch print with 4800. Before this the largest print I did was 16 x 20.Settings: b&w driver, file @ 300 dpi, bi-directional is off, 2880 ppi, drying time per head pass is .15 secs, firewire connection.
Total print time = 25 minutes.
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So, I am looking seriously into replacing the 4800 with the 7800. There’s a bunch of things I need to figure out in terms of space. I guess any New Yorker would have that problem.
Also, I don’t even think they use the same cartridges. There’s no way I could keep sets of both cartridges. I’d better check that out.
Also, as far as the blog goes, I decided to use a different theme so that images wouldn’t be squished on pc’s with lower screen resolution.
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Anyway, I printed seven 16×20’s today. The silver rag paper is not as instant dry as say an Ilford pearl, so I usually let them dry out in the open, with an air-can handy to blow off any dust / cat hair that might settle on it while it’s wet, and then they go into various cabinets to finish drying and what I call curing. It’s not that the printing takes that long, but some of these had to be rescanned and then re-photoshopped.
Tomorrow I have about eight 16 x 24’s to get through and then I can get to develop film that’s been piling up.
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UPDATE: I sent an 11 x 14 file to West Coast Imaging for them to print on Silver Rag with the 9800. I should have it back in a week or so. (Today is May 29, 2007)
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