[Leica] Don't you ever print anything?!

[Kyle Cassidy <KCassidy@asc.upenn.edu>]

Sam asked:

>Which brings me to the meandering of the the digital "I can shoot all 
>day for free if I shoot digital" crowd. Film is a small part of the cost 
>of print making. Don't you people ever print out anything? Or is there 
>anything worth printing when you shoot with dollar signs obscuring your 
>eyes? Or haven't you noticed that a nice jet ink print printed on good 
>paper with obscenely expensive inks (a recent magazine estimated the 
>cost of Epson inks at $99.00 a pound) cost more than a conventional print?

For me, at least, MOST if not nearly all of the printing costs are now born
by the consumer. I put things in my portfolio, and for that I pay for
printing, and occasionally I yank something off the wall and replace it with
something else. But for the most part, I rarely have anything printed. And
when I do, the printers would just as soon see a digital file that I've
already dodged and burned, than a negative and a sheet of instructions.

Kc
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