Digital BW, The Print

"William Real" <realw@c...> wrote:
 
> > WOW...30K prints! That will take over 2 months at 8 hours a day at 7 
> > days a week to complete with an inkjet!
> 
> fortunately they do not all have to be done at once--over a two year
> period, a little bit at a time...

Smiling.  If you print 250 days a year, that's still 60 unique prints
a day.  That's a lot of work.  

Even the desktop printers can do 60 prints a day, but I have never
done 60 unique, new prints a day.  More like a week.  A lot of my work
on a new print is image optimization, and you may not have to deal
with that.  You may get a really standard workflow, with standard
image adjustments that take very little time.  At best, I figure a
couple of waste prints per final print, so you might want to figure
that in as well.

I get about 750 sq inches per cartridge on a 2200, printing color.  I
figure about 11 ml used per 2200 cart.  If you use the desktop
printers, you will use up some color carts from cleaning cycles.  So
that would be over 3000 black carts to do your job on the 2200, and an
unknown number of color carts.

If you use a 2200, you'll probably want a CIS.  You can use the same
sq in to ml ratio to figure ink usage, but the different CIS systems
have chip resetting schemes that can alter ink usage quite a bit, due
to number of cleaning cycles.

As someone mentioned, you'll probably wear out a few of the desktop
printers, so figure on buying a few of them, or start with one of the
pro models.