Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/11/29
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Exactly. I have an exact price per size, averaged over thousands of prints. The inkjey prints are WAY more (like 3-4 times) expensive per print than silver B&W prints. I haven't done enough colour printing myself recently enough to know how it compares, but my guess is that inkjet would be cheaper and certainly quicker and, of course, better. Digital frees us from the nasty chemical ties of hue and saturation for all printing methods except dye transfer. And I'm not THAT crazy. This is all Australian prices too, which are vastly higher than US prices, even now that the currencies are at parity, or thereabouts. Marty On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 3:21 PM, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> wrote: > I'd establish an estimated per print cost. > Say it cost a buck per sheet of paper and another buck maybe two for > pigment. > Its certainly no cheaper than a darkroom print unless you're using cheap > paper then good luck. > Prints cost dollars not pennies. Just like darkroom did. > > That way just like in the darkroom you make a mistake you know its a three > dollar mistake. You make an extra one for you grandmother you know its > three > bucks for your grandmother. Plus hogging up your printer for 3 minutes or > more. > > > -------------------- > Mark William Rabiner > Photography > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/ > mark at rabinergroup.com > Cars: ? http://tinyurl.com/2f7ptxb > > > > >> From: Howard Ritter <hlritter at bex.net> >> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> >> Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2010 20:48:17 -0500 >> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> >> Subject: Re: [Leica] Advice on a 17" printer >> >> Thanks, Ken. That was a concern of mine too. The cost of an >> across-the-board >> recharge of the 4900 would approach a kilobuck! What I'm trying to find >> out is >> how many prints of whatever size could be made from one set of >> cartridges, as >> well as whether the 6-month life expectancy is real or conservatively >> estimated. It seems to me that, with the ability of the printer to clean >> the >> print heads effectively, there shouldn't be a limit on the life of a >> cartridge >> once it's been put into service. Seems like there couldn't be much >> evaporation >> through those tiny nozzles. >> >> ?howard >> >> >> On Nov 28, 2010, at 3:37 PM, Ken Carney wrote: >> >>> Howard, >>> >>> From time to time I have thought about upgrading also, until I get >>> sidetracked. ?A concern for me has been the life of the inks. ?Epson says >>> that is six months after the cartridges have been opened, though I do not >>> know how accurate that is. ?With the 3880 it would probably be a stretch >>> for >>> me to use up the 80ml cartridges within the approximate six-month >>> window. ?I >>> see the 4900 comes with starter 80ml cartridges, but the regular >>> cartridges >>> are 200ml, even more of a stretch. ?Refilling the 3880 is $45 X 9 >>> cartridges, >>> and the 4900 is $87 X 10. >>> >>> Ken >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >