Good advice in general, but it's not necessary to invest in any devices at all to control color if you're visually acute colorwise, the way traditional color printers were. Also, consider the Nikon V rather than $400 more for the 5000, both 4000ppi...the latter seems over kill, isn't better in any respect than the V except speed (V is already very fast @ 2.5min) and irrelevant statistics (5000's nominally greater bit depth and Dmax are relevant only to publishers, who do their own scanning anyway). When considering paper, consider what you intend to do with prints. If you intend to hang them under glass any advantage in gloss or semigloss is lost. If you intend to distribute prints for press releases (rock bands, head shots), gloss becomes more relevant. Two glossy papers that seem better than Epsons are Moab Kokopelli and, perhaps even better, Costco's Kirkland...which has the advantage of being incredibly cheap while being very attractive. If your prints are not intended for display, just for personal purposes, semigloss seems satisfying to many. Personally, I've settled for a while on Moab Kayenta for proofing and play, and Moab Entrada bright for display at 12X18 etc...both are matte and both are glassed when on display. --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, James Parker <dakota.kid@m...> wrote: > > To condense it to the extreme:
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Re: new to all of this
2006-01-02 by djon43