Digital BW, The Print

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?

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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Steve,
I've been using the 16" wide rolls of Epson Premium Luster to create 37" pano's on my 3800. 
No problem. I just made a simple support to keep the material feeding smoothly.
Ed Weaver

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "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?
>

Thanks, David. I was hoping to simply roll out the paper on a flat
surface to a 17" length then VERY carefully, using a t-square or
ruler, cut with an xacto knife. I would then feed the 17"x 24" sheet
of paper into the rear tray (a la velvet fine art). Not sure how
practical this is but in theory it sounds like it can be done.



--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, cdtobie
<CDTobie@...> wrote:

>
> 
> 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
> 
> 
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
>

On Nov 11, 2008, at 4:53:46 PM, SteveZ <blizzie12@...> wrote:

Thanks, David. I was hoping to simply roll out the paper on a flat
surface to a 17" length then VERY carefully, using a t-square or
ruler, cut with an xacto knife. I would then feed the 17"x 24" sheet
of paper into the rear tray (a la velvet fine art). Not sure how
practical this is but in theory it sounds like it can be done.
That, plus some type of "deroller" would do the trick... if manually.
--
C. David Tobie
WW Product Technology Manager
Digital Imaging & Home Theater
Datacolor
CDTobie@...
www.datacolor.com/spyder3


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If you can live with VFA in 17x22 in. sheets, you can get 25 sheets 
through Provantage for $90.

SteveB   


--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, cdtobie 
<CDTobie@...> wrote:
>
> 
> On Nov 11, 2008, at 4:53:46 PM, SteveZ <blizzie12@...> wrote:
> 
> Thanks, David. I was hoping to simply roll out the paper on a flat
> surface to a 17" length then VERY carefully, using a t-square or
> ruler, cut with an xacto knife. I would then feed the 17"x 24" sheet
> of paper into the rear tray (a la velvet fine art). Not sure how
> practical this is but in theory it sounds like it can be done.
> That, plus some type of "deroller" would do the trick... if 
manually.

> --
> C. David Tobie
> WW Product Technology Manager
> Digital Imaging & Home Theater
> Datacolor
> CDTobie@...
> www.datacolor.com/spyder3
> 
> 
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
>