Deal Made

Sam

Early evening, a truck rattles up my street. I have been waiting. A man wearing a hat and dark glasses whispered, "are you Sam?", I nod, he says "lets get this over with, where do you want it?"

I nod towards the open garage door and ask him if he has everything he needs to get the merchandise in there. With a condescending smirch he gets to work. He has done this many times before.

I will keep you all posted as this moves forward.

Sam

kdog

:wow

:lurk

CWSkopec

kdog wrote: »

:wow

:lurk

Angelo

ooooh, intrique!!!! love it Sam - give us more

but the jig is up, we can see the canon logo; now we know you bought a new lens!!!

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aj986s

Wow. That must be the new 4-800 F1.4 lens I've heard rumors about.

jmphotocraft

Chuck Westfall is in the box?

adbsgicom

Opening a print business. SCC (Sam's Custom Color) ?

Glort

I bought 6 new printers this week.
All the boxes combined didn't add up to the size of that one.

I also bought over 50 boxes of paper, 8L of ink, 2 new desktop computers, 4 bulk ink tanks, another speedlight, a 10-22, a 17-40, a 24-105, a colormunki and a 650D.
The pile of rubbish and cardboard from all that I now have to get rid of WOULD be about right for that box.
They sure tend to over package stuff these days.

I have been thinking of getting a small wide format printer mainly for doing signs and banners as I seem to be spending a heap on those of late.
Holding off until I can find a supplier of bulk ink. The OEM stuff is ridiculous.

David_S85

Sam, you bought a master case (96) of 1Dx's or 5DIII's?

Sam

Update,

I gota tell ya I'm not all that happy with Canon. I was told everything I needed was in the box. After carefully following the instructions and assembling the stand. The instructions said I needed 6 people to place the main portion on the stand.

Would you believe they didn't even include one person?

Now here I sit trying to figure out how to entice 6 unsuspecting people over to help.

Sam

lensmole

I would send it back .

Sam

Glort wrote: »

I bought 6 new printers this week.
All the boxes combined didn't add up to the size of that one.

I also bought over 50 boxes of paper, 8L of ink, 2 new desktop computers, 4 bulk ink tanks, another speedlight, a 10-22, a 17-40, a 24-105, a colormunki and a 650D.
The pile of rubbish and cardboard from all that I now have to get rid of WOULD be about right for that box.
They sure tend to over package stuff these days.

I have been thinking of getting a small wide format printer mainly for doing signs and banners as I seem to be spending a heap on those of late.
Holding off until I can find a supplier of bulk ink. The OEM stuff is ridiculous.

Glort,

There are quite a few after market ink suppliers for the large format printers but I wouldn't touch them when dealing with fine art prints. however for signage and posters I wouldn't object to giving them a try.

Also note there are large format printers specifically made for sign shops to print all kinds of banners including on vinyl with UV resistant inks. They generally have only 4 to 6 colors and are substantially less expensive to operate, then say a large format photo printer with 12 inks.

Sam

Angelo

Sam wrote: »

...Now here I sit trying to figure out how to entice 6 unsuspecting people over to help.

beer!

beer & pizza!!!

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Sam

Bear and Pizza
A simple yet elegant solution.

Now I can't continue to blame others for getting the printer set up and going.

Sam

Angelo

wow, that sure is purrrrrty

jww

Sam wrote: »

A simple yet elegant solution.

Now I can't continue to blame others for getting the printer set up and going.

Sam

HOKEY SMOKES!! IT'S A PIANO!!!

Wow... I am so terribly jealous!! Congrats!! That is one awesome printer!

AlliOOP

I love the Sam-mobiles on the wall. Nice prize on the stand too!

Sam

OK, ink installed, ran print test, all looks good.

Tomorrow I will download ICC profiles and start testing real images and paper.

PS: this is only the small 36 " roll.

Sam

ZBlack

Can us newly subscribed Power users use you as our print lab?!

adbsgicom

Dang. My R2880 is feeling very inadequate now....
Congrats on the new printer!
-a

Sam

Printer update
I thought I would post an update with first impressions on a new thread.

Printer is finally in the studio, inks are loaded, print test was successfully run, and I have begun the paper / printer testing. I want to be a little more scientific about my paper choices. A 44" roll of paper is a lot more $$ than a 17" wide roll.

I was informed the big printers are finicky about loading and printing on sheet paper, but I have found while you do have to be careful about paper alignment it will accept 8.5 X 11 paper and print with a minimum of fuss. Although it feels like your feeding a small dog treat to an elephant.

The new Lucia EX inks are a brand new formulation designed for the XX300 series PROGRAF printers and is not backward compatible with earlier printers. The new ink increases color gamut by 20%, produces deeper blacks, smooths out tonal transitions and is physically more durable with less gloss differential.

I was not prepared for the improved detail this printer produces over my beloved ipf5000. clap
Color looks accurate and fantastic right out of the box as well.

I think I am going to love this printer.

Sam

Sam

I am getting lost on what I have posted and where. dunno The organic hard drive ain't what it used to be.

Mods.......feel free to delete one.

Sam

Angelo

I merged the threads for you Sam so folks can follow along

Sam

Angelo wrote: »

I merged the threads for you Sam so folks can follow along

Thanks!!!!!!!

kdog

Sam, I think I still have an unframed copy of a favorite shot of mine (moonrise in Sedona) that was made by Bay Photo. Any interest in printing a copy at your place to compare? Maybe I'll start using you as my new printing service.

Sam

kdog wrote: »

Sam, I think I still have an unframed copy of a favorite shot of mine (moonrise in Sedona) that was made by Bay Photo. Any interest in printing a copy at your place to compare? Maybe I'll start using you as my new printing service.

Sure, give me a call. I am still in the process of paper / icc profile testing, and learning the intricacies of the printer.

Sam