Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/10/17

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Subject: RE: [Leica] Re: dry & wet darkroom :-()-:
From: Tina Manley <images@InfoAve.Net>
Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2000 16:11:44 -0400

At 03:50 PM 10/17/00 -0400, you wrote:
>but when it's all said and done, my print from the darkroom can and is sold
>for $800. whereas, any epson printed print might net me a $100, (mainly
>because of the presentation costs).
>
>Rob Mueller
>Studies in Black and White
>www.studiesinblackandwhite.com
>rob@studiesinblackandwhite.com
>


No! No! No!  This is totally the wrong attitude to have!  Your price should 
have more to do with your creativity and talent than with your 
expenses.  If your darkroom print is worth $800, then your computer print 
is worth that or more.  The same talent went into making both 
prints.  Besides - if you factor in the cost of your computer, printer, 
inks, paper, time for learning the program, etc., your costs are actually 
more for the computer print.  You could charge more because the computer 
print is on the cutting edge of technology!

I charge the same or more for my Piezography prints that I do for my 
darkroom prints and no one has questioned the price or the process.

Tina

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