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Andy
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ok i'm hooked! i came home today and the fedex man had left a new canon i9900 on my doorstep 
whoo-boy, i was excited. it *is* all about the print for me, and at home, i'd been printing up to 8x10s on an inexpensive hp inkjet ... occasionally i'd use a friend's canon for larger prints. well, at around $400 usd, this printer seemed like a good deal, and let me tell you, after a few prints, i'm *hooked* on it the prints are really high quality -
even my wife said *wow* and she's not easily impressed
this thing does up to 13" x 19" borderless printing, so i'm going
to have some custom mattes made for that size, and then get some 20
x 24 frames from exposuresonline.
most of my prints are done by my smugmug, but there's nothing like doing your own every so often, too ... it's really gratifying to take the shot, work it in post, and then print it yourself, matte, frame it, and hang it on the wall.
enjoy (printing your work) photography,
whoo-boy, i was excited. it *is* all about the print for me, and at home, i'd been printing up to 8x10s on an inexpensive hp inkjet ... occasionally i'd use a friend's canon for larger prints. well, at around $400 usd, this printer seemed like a good deal, and let me tell you, after a few prints, i'm *hooked* on it the prints are really high quality -even my wife said *wow* and she's not easily impressed
this thing does up to 13" x 19" borderless printing, so i'm going
to have some custom mattes made for that size, and then get some 20
x 24 frames from exposuresonline.
most of my prints are done by my smugmug, but there's nothing like doing your own every so often, too ... it's really gratifying to take the shot, work it in post, and then print it yourself, matte, frame it, and hang it on the wall.
enjoy (printing your work) photography,
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I've read good things about that printer. I recently bought a new Epson 2200 that can do borderless 13x19, or 13x44 on roll paper.
What is the print life expected to be on that model? I have an s900 that gets about 6 months behind glass. Something you may want to check into if you plan on selling those prints. This is also the main reason for me getting the Epson.
How many 13x19's have you printed yet? I went crazy the first few days with that size! There is nothing like instant gratification of digital. Smugmug has a great product & price, but I like to see my photo in minutes, not days.
I've even thought about getting my own matte cutter & learning how to do it myself. Looking around the internet, it doesn't seem too expensive.
Congrats on a cool new toy!
Dave
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i won't be printing these for clients - those are done from smugmug / ezprints.
mattes? i'm just going to order a bunch of mattes for the 13x19 paper
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Kodak has some new pro inkjet papers, here. They come in either matte (lustre) or glossy. They feel just like RA-4 paper and absorb the ink/dye slightly deeper to prevent bronzing. Their test prints look really good. wxwax and I both picked up a free pack (5) 8.5x11 sheets. He was going to give me his, but if you want it PM him and see if he can drop it in the mail, or maybe a Kodak rep can get you some. This paper holds a lot of promise for making great prints with a traditional print feel and look, time to do some tests.
I have used an Epson 2200 for about 12 months and once I got it dialed in, I have really enjoyed it. I use it for 5x7s on 8x10 stock and for 13x19 on premium photo lustre paper. It blows away the Cibachrome imges I made years ago. I chose the Epson like you because of concerns about longevity. I just preferred the idea of pigment inks versus dyes for long life and stability. But the Canon does get rave reviews I know.
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looking for good online suppliers now. got any ideas / suggestions?
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I order from epsonusa.com online and get delivery within 24 hours. I have an order in from Red River Paper also, but have not recieved it yet as it is shipped from Texas - heh hehe Red River!. When it arrives, I will report re its larger size papers.
Inkjetmall.com is another resource that is well thought of
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I've been using the house paper from Calumet photo called Brilliant Supreme. They have Glossy, Lustre & Matte. So far I've used the Luster & Matte & its great. I probably will never buy glossy paper...I just don't care for it much.
You may want to go to B&H to see what they have. Most places have a sample pack so you can try all the different papers and see what you like best. I just picked up a sample pack of Photo Rag paper. This stuff looks like fun.
Let me know if you find anything good.
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fine. i have ff envy. i'll send you my i9900 and my undying love for your ff canon.
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Ive had mine since it was introduced! Its an awesome printer that yields extremly high quality results - but you already know that!!! I bet those "greens" and "reds" show up really spectacular!!!
troy
I'm happy for you Andy, but just so the others here don't start felling inadequite, and rush out to buy this printer. I thought I would post a few well known negitive facts about the i9900.
It takes (8) ink cartridges! Many fine printers of today only need half that many. High expense, and serious design flaw.
Way too quite. If you leave the room for say coffee, you will have to keep runng back to see if it's still printing. Why spend resources to eliminate a usefull continuing audible operating notification feature?
Print speed is too fast. A quality job takes time.
Short print life. By their own admission, if you use their paper, and ink, the print life is only 25 years. What a rip off.
6,144 nozzles! Good grief........the other printers do it with far less. Over complicated with more chances for maintenance issues.
Then of course they are brain washing you into printing huge 13" X 19" prints that suck up ink by the gallon, and are the cause of entire forests being cut down.
Just thought you would like to know.
ps: I am not getting one....I am not getting one....I am not getting one....I am not getting one....I am not getting one....I am not getting one....I am not getting one....I am not getting one....
sam, i had to read your post twice
lol.
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happy with the quality though it realy lacks in the photo printing
arena (it's pitched as more of a 4x6 photo printer which is does ok
with).
I'd be curious to know how the printer stacks up with respect to consumables.
How is it on ink? How many prints of your average size are you able to print
between refills? I know most of this is easy enough to come by in the specs
but real world info would be best.
Ian
how does it work for invoices ?
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13x19 paper seems to be about $1.25 or $1.50 a sheet. dunno about the ink yet.....
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I don't use a ton of supplies, so I tend to by locally, but a friend of mine orders his supplies from atlex.com. They have a lot of inventory and good prices.
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I want one.. I want it now... I may have to get one.. secretly.. I wonder if he'll notice it's not the same printer...
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Are you using Canon's paper, Thomas? Does Canon provide ICC profiles for their papers? If you are using other brands you will probably have to create your own profiles or look for another source for a profile.
I had an HP Photosmart P1100 that made lovely prints but never would match my monitor without using HP's program to deal with a magenta tint. I finally ditched it for an Epson and have never looked back. But some printers are VERY sensitive to brands of paper also - I have just settled on Epson paper. I am in the process of trying some paper from Red River, but need more time to formulate an opinion.
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If you are using Canon paper then you surely already have the appropriate profiles for the paper you are using. But as for the printer automatically doing eveythiing re color management - you are right - life is not that simple
Printing from Photoshop is different than printing from other computer programs. When I print with my Epsons - I have to chose a box in The Printer Settings that says "No Color Management" That is to say - the printer is not going to alter the color in ANY way but just print what it is sent from PS -- BUT if I print a page from the WEB, I have to let the printer do the color management. You also must tell the printer somewhere what paper you are using.
When you print directly from Photoshop, PS has already done the color managment and you do not want the printer to make any changes whereas if you try to print an image from a CF chip directly out of a camera it will look really flat unless you let the printer perform some color management. This took me a while to get my head around, but now it makes sense to me.
Look around your printer driver or your printer drop down menus and see if their is not some where to stop printer color management when you print from PS. Maybe Andy can help you here as he has a Canon printer also and loves it. My experience is limited to an Epson 2200 and a 4000 both of which have the same check box to disallow printer color management. Maybe that is why my H&P would never print what I saw in Photoshop without a color cast!
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The grey box lists various color spaces either theoretical spaces or spaces used by various devises - BUT I see no specific paper listings. I usually print on Epson remium Lustre and that is what goes into the output space.
The output should list a specific paper so the printer knows which profile to use. The "NO Color Management" is not an Adobe box but part of the menus from the printer drivers or printer utility itself. In my case it is specifically in the Epson driver boxes which I reach after leaving the photohsop menus in setting up the act of printing.
The i990 options may refer to different papers perhaps? I do not know - have you tried printing with one of the 1990 choices? This can be so confusing - It took me a while before I got straightened out and that was because of the Epson Print Academy. Is there any on-line discussion groups for the 1990 or on line FAQ sources?
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This is my setup for Color management in PS - This is rec'd by Scott Kelby and by the people who gave the online Epson Print Academy so I think it is the preferred setup for photographers who print with inkjets like you and me.
These are the setting for color management in PS CS.
The second image is the initial box I get when I hit 'print with preview'....
The document space is sRGB for this image, the Print Space is Pro4000 Premium lustre - this is the profile for Premium Lustre that came with the Epson 4000 printer. Next I hit Page steup in the upper right of this box to tell the printer whether I will be printing portait or landscape mode and what size paper I am using. The I hit print.....in the upper right. This then brings up the Epson printer utility box that i will show next here ..... I could not capture all of the information in this box for some reason but ... the third box from the top offers several drop down choices - one of which is "printer color management" ,,, Notice that I have No color management checked here. If I did not I get really funky colors when I print from PS.. BUT if I print from a web page I check color controls authorizing the printer to control color management.
I am not sure how Canon does their software, but I suspect thwy must do something similar along the way....
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