Digital BW, The Print

On Nov 11, 2008, at 12:00:19 PM, SteveZ <blizzie12@...> wrote:

I've been wanting to try Epson Somerset Velvet paper with my 3800. My
plan is to purchase a 24" x 50' roll and cut the paper to 17" widths
along the long end. This would decrease my paper costs vis-a-vis Epson
Velvet Fine Art and allow me to utilize non textured paper fine art
velvet paper. Has anyone here ever tried doing this?
I've "sheeted" a lot of roll paper for use in any number of different 
printers. How easy and effective it is depends on what type of machine 
or manual device you use to do the measuring and cutting. It used to 
be much easier with the older Encad plotters; they had very simple 
controls for running the paper fast forward or back, micro forward or 
back, and then cutting when you reached the right spot. I'd attach a 
steel ruler and get easy measurements and precision cuts. I probably 
should have kept one simply for cutting purposes. Newer printers tend 
to want to be smarter than you are, and not let you do things easily 
and manually.
--
C. David Tobie
WW Product Technology Manager
Digital Imaging & Home Theater
Datacolor
CDTobie@...
www.datacolor.com/spyder3


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