I would just grab one of the Canon Pixma Printers from the US, when they bundle the heavy cash rebate.Kaitlyn wrote: ↑I've been taking (mainly) landscape photos for a while now, but don't print often and when I do it often ends up being the most convenient option. I've got a new batch of photos I'd really love to display in my home but not really sure where to start. Any advice or guidance on picking materials (paper materials, canvas vs something else, etc.) and display format (so many framing options!)?
How do you get the mail in rebate? Even if you use a delivery drop at the boarder to actually get the printer, don't you need a real US address for them to accept the rebate?
Something must be broken in your workflow. Maybe you are mixing up the ICC profiles? I do alot of home photo printing dating back to the HP Photosmart days and always had excellent results. Right now I own the Imageprograf pro 1000 and the result is nothing but outstanding.Oracle1729 wrote: ↑ How do you get the mail in rebate? Even if you use a delivery drop at the boarder to actually get the printer, don't you need a real US address for them to accept the rebate?
Also, what kind of quality do you really get from these printers? I have the older Pro9000 MK2, and I've always gotten horrible, garish, ugly colours from it, even after buying a colormunki photo to try profiling it. I've used the Canon art paper that was bundled with it as well as a variety of Ilford and Inkpress papers and never gotten an acceptable print from it. I've tried lots of different things, downloaded profiles, custom profiles, letting photoshop manage the colours, letting the print driver manage colours, etc.. I' m not being overly picky, random people I show them to say they're horrible prints. I recently used it to print some invitations with a small photo and someone asked me why the colour was so bad.
I do look at the sample prints at Henrys from these printers and they look great. Not sure why I can't ever get the same results or even something moderately useful.
Since I do some paid work, I use a pro printing service in the US and get absolutely amazing results from the same files that look like garbage on my Canon. Since they're pro, they don't do any form of autocorrect, just send the file directly to the printer but their printers work and produce beautiful prints. I've even used the same papers they do on my Canon and gotten ugly garbage.
Just sign up for a cross border address or use a friend in the US to collect your rebate.Oracle1729 wrote: ↑ How do you get the mail in rebate? Even if you use a delivery drop at the boarder to actually get the printer, don't you need a real US address for them to accept the rebate?
Also, what kind of quality do you really get from these printers? I have the older Pro9000 MK2, and I've always gotten horrible, garish, ugly colours from it, even after buying a colormunki photo to try profiling it. I've used the Canon art paper that was bundled with it as well as a variety of Ilford and Inkpress papers and never gotten an acceptable print from it. I've tried lots of different things, downloaded profiles, custom profiles, letting photoshop manage the colours, letting the print driver manage colours, etc.. I' m not being overly picky, random people I show them to say they're horrible prints. I recently used it to print some invitations with a small photo and someone asked me why the colour was so bad.
I do look at the sample prints at Henrys from these printers and they look great. Not sure why I can't ever get the same results or even something moderately useful.
Since I do some paid work, I use a pro printing service in the US and get absolutely amazing results from the same files that look like garbage on my Canon. Since they're pro, they don't do any form of autocorrect, just send the file directly to the printer but their printers work and produce beautiful prints. I've even used the same papers they do on my Canon and gotten ugly garbage.
Are you getting 20% waste ink from the constant cleaning/maintenance cycles?
Welcome to the world of print - the final step of a photographer's journey. Without this step, your work never comes alive! The paper choice totally depends on the image you are printing and personal preference. Maybe if you can post a few sample photos here I can give you some recommendation.Kaitlyn wrote: ↑ I've been taking (mainly) landscape photos for a while now, but don't print often and when I do it often ends up being the most convenient option. I've got a new batch of photos I'd really love to display in my home but not really sure where to start. Any advice or guidance on picking materials (paper materials, canvas vs something else, etc.) and display format (so many framing options!)?
Not to my knowledge but prolonged idling (72 hours or more) will trigger a small cleaning cycle. If you print a photo every 24 hours it will never enter a cleaning cycle. This is way pigment printer works unfortunately to prevent clogging. But the ink tank is huge on this thing, even after showing low inks on all cart (first set of setup ink), it took TONS of print to fully deplete them.
Indeed but sometimes you gotta pay to play. For my Pro 1000, I think the ink will last me more than 1 year based on the volume I print. No calibration is needed with ICC profiles unless you have some real exotic paper that needs custom profiling. In addition, I've already made a few hundred bucks printing for other photographers and friends etc so my printer will actually become a profit center soonzmaw1235 wrote: ↑ I don't print very often either (a few batches per year) and most of the time I end up printing some large-ish ones. Any good photo printer would cost FAR too much to run. Something like an imagePROGRAF PRO-1000 (around $1500 with taxes) might need a couple ink refills (around $800 for all 11 cartridges) per year... Then stock some nice paper in different sizes, and spend a bunch of paper/ink calibrating it all... It's just not worth it IMO.
My local pro lab prints 8x10's for about $1, 16x20's for about $8 and 24x36's (which the PRO-1000 can't even do) for about $25. The results are always spot-on (compared to my IPS monitors, calibrated with a Spyder 4). There's many other good photo labs that turn out good results at decent prices (and that will provide you their ICC profiles).
