2008-05-16 by Mark Savoia
Tread carefully when dealing with Focus, many have been burned and promised the world. Check out the ASMP or PDN forums. Mark http://www.stillrivereditions.com
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2008-05-16 by kalebtreuman
... $20 per book? ... 1000 copies.
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2008-05-16 by Michael King
Hi, txs for the info. How big was the print run going to be to get $20 per book?
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2008-05-16 by kalebtreuman
I m a bit of a lurker, but this thread has recently interested me. So I decided to join and participate. Hello everyone! Sean, Lenswork magazine is printed at
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2008-05-16 by Mark Savoia
You might be able to find many printers who can do a great job but it will cost more (big surprise). To keep the cost down, see if a book can be ganged up
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2008-05-16 by sean@wyeastphoto.com
Has anyone looked into the process that Brooks Jensen uses for Lenswork. Maybe that press might be willing to do print on demand or short runs. Sean
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2008-05-16 by Michael King
If you want to produce a great black and white book you need to hook up with Brooks Jensen the Lenswork publisher. Lenswork for me is the b&w book benchmark.
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2008-05-16 by schneidlyho
it is my understanding that really fine art black and white photo books are printed using duo, tri or quad-tone printing. a very demanding process involving
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2008-05-16 by Scott Jones
I looked into Shared ink awhile ago and called their customer service which turned out to be simply the owner. He outsources all the books to an Indigo just
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2008-05-16 by Paul Whiting
... wrote: (excuse thread drift, everybody) I go back to the era of ATO and Tapcis... under DOS! Remember those? ... mixed ... we had ... run ...
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2008-05-15 by Paul Grant
I have tried the BLURB process on a number of occaisions....For color they are great, econical and pretty good. For b/w it is hit or miss relative to the
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2008-05-15 by Tyler Boley
I m told most of those online print on demand book printers use Indigo presses. Apparently they are very hard to keep calibrated over even short periods of
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2008-05-15 by Bert Katzung
I know nothing about this vendor or about commercial printing of photographic books, but I know a little about general commercial printing. In that area,
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2008-05-15 by Joost Horsten
Thanks for the pointer, I checked their website. Their claim to deliver Finest 4-color prints does not give me much confidence but I mailed them and asked
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2008-05-15 by Gary Weaver
Yahoo is aptly named. Comp-U-Serve was great. gar *********** REPLY SEPARATOR ***********
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2008-05-15 by c1asia
i haven t used this service but i ve read somewhere that this might be a good one to try out. it s a bit pricier than some of the others. i don t know what
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2008-05-15 by Michael T. Murphy
... You need to trick the printer into not knowing that you are switching blacks. Then you run an all black purge page of about 24 x40 to get rid of the
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2008-05-15 by Scott Jones
How weird that we live in the same town! Metro recycling is (503) 234-3000 Free geek is (503) 232-9350 By the way, I run a free, private, no spam email
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2008-05-15 by Roger
I highly recommend trying to give away dead printers for parts first (look for Freecycle or forums like this). Second would be manufacturer take back programs
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2008-05-15 by mkirschner
... Hey Scott, I wish I could clone myself sometimes! I actually live in Portland. Of course...I d forgotten all about FreeGeek. I ll check with them first to
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2008-05-15 by Arthur Fink
... What I m hearing is you can, but you shouldn t. I m inclined to give away or sell the Epson Standard Proofing Paper, switch to Matte Black ink, and keep
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2008-05-15 by Clayton Jones
Hello Arthur, ... Yes. ... Very poor dmax on matte paper. Regards, Clayton Info on black and white digital printing at http://www.cjcom.net/digiprnarts.htm
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2008-05-15 by Tyler Boley
... Murphy wrote: ... .... all correct, but it s pretty pricey. Tyler
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2008-05-15 by Michael T. Murphy
No ptroblem using the Photo Black. That is the one machine that it is relatibely easy to switch on. Do a search on the South African method. Also
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2008-05-15 by Paul Whiting
... wrote: I see what you re saying, Sam, thanks, that makes sense. However I am participating in the group on the website, not through e-mail. I m
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2008-05-15 by pr_roark
The good news is that the 1400 ICM mode accepts QTR s Create ICC- RGB ICCs. The bad news is that the driver s native ramp in the ICM mode has a very steep
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2008-05-14 by Sam McCandless
I believe, Paul, that threading is controlled (or not) by setting a preference in your e-mail client (I guess it s a client of your ISP s server). For
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2008-05-14 by Scott Jones
At least here in Portland, Oregon we have a non profit called Free-Geek that takes all electronic things and recycles them or refurbishes them to give to low
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2008-05-14 by John Labovitz
... These days, *all* electronics should be treated as if they have toxic metals. While printers have a pretty small amount of electronics in them, disposing
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2008-05-14 by mkirschner
My two C86 s died last week (almost too strange for coincidence), and I want to dispose of them properly. Does anyone know if: 1) They might have toxic metals
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2008-05-14 by Paul Whiting
... wrote: Many apologies everyone, Paul. both Scotts, Denis, and everyone else. I m feeling very dumb but I have had trouble navigating this
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2008-05-14 by Arthur Fink
I just got a great deal on an Epson 7600. It came with a few rolls of Epson Standard Proofing Paper -- a paper which I had never even considered using for
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2008-05-14 by pr_roark
Scott, ... In the old days with the 1280, we found that the Eboni and dye mixed on the parking pad and caused some nuisance clogging. We found we had to
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2008-05-14 by Paul Whiting
... wrote: Oops, that was niteowl who sent me that link! Thanks, niteowl! ... MIS to ... until I
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2008-05-14 by Paul Whiting
... wrote: Thanks for that link, Scott, I just checked out their website. Were you able to obtain empty carts? All the carts I found there,
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2008-05-14 by Joost Horsten
Hi all As I would have expected this to be a repeating question I searched the group archive but only found this 2-years old thread:
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2008-05-14 by scott_now_coming
... MIS to ... until I ... ordered ... can. ... Scott, Have you filled, installed and printed with one of the 1400 carts you purchased from inkjetsoutlet.com ?
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2008-05-14 by niteowl1004
Hi all, I dont know if the reply got through, but I got the carts at inkjetsoutlet.com they look pretty sturdy, and I ordered ink from MIS to start to work
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2008-05-14 by Richard Smallfield
Hi again, here s the page for the Sypder 3 Elite ... http://spyder.datacolor.com/product-mc-s3elite.php If I were buying one I d be tempted to go for one of
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2008-05-14 by Paul Whiting
... wrote: Yes, thank you Denis, I m familiar with the items you mention. That s what I use with great success on my R220 when doing BO
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2008-05-14 by pr_roark
... Could be. I m sure there are lots of variables. I suspect that the head alignment is also optimized for a specific thickness. The only place I have a
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2008-05-14 by Sammy Bar
Thanks Richard for your suggestions. I will indeed start with the calibration software and see how that works on the two MS machines (Vista and XP) and if
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2008-05-14 by the_des_bois
Paul, The refill kit you are linking to is the kit for EPSON OEM Carts. I ve used it with great success but it will not work on after-market carts, sponge or
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2008-05-14 by pr_roark
... I think the carts MIS will ship will be refillable. Wait and be sure. There should be a removable stopper in the top of the reservoir. Sometimes this is
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2008-05-14 by the_des_bois
... I find that with an R1800 with 3MK I sometimes get micro-banding on certain papers while the same image on another one will not have it. Could it be
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2008-05-14 by Paul Whiting
I think this is the refill kit the MIS rep meant, I m not sure, but I suspect so: http://www.inksupply.com/epson_oem_refill_kit.cfm Unfortunately it appears to
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2008-05-14 by pr_roark
... With a magnifying glass you can still see occasional microbanding on most printers. But they keep getting better, and most don t look at prints with a
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2008-05-13 by Paul Whiting
... That s good to hear, Paul, guess I was getting a little concerned about these micro-banding horror stories. And doesn t it stand to reason
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2008-05-13 by Peter Marshall
Stephen, I don t think that an invisible watermark by itself will be effective. Even currently it isn t much good for online use unless you also sign up and
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2008-05-13 by pr_roark
... Frankly, if I were printing a lot of true, dark sepia tone, I d either use an OEM K3 or blended B&W ink mix that included Epson M and Y (not my favorite
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