Posted in Opinion, Photo Gear, Photo Printing, Photo Resources on Jun 28th, 2008 No Comments »
Save Polaroid
On February 8, 2008, Polaroid Corporation announced that it will discontinue production of all instant film. This site will document the aftermath of this announcement and will serve as a home-base for the effort to convince another company to begin producing the cherished technology that Polaroid has so carelessly abandoned.
This site is not about [...]
Posted in Art and Design, Photo Printing, Photo Resources on Apr 9th, 2008 No Comments »
A set of excellent notes on making photo books with Blurb: Want to Make a Blurb Book?.
Posted in Photo Gear, Photo Printing on Feb 11th, 2008 4 Comments »
Polaroid Abandons Instant Photography
Gary, better stock up on film, this is the end of Polaroid dye transfers.
[via kottke.org]
Posted in Photo Printing, Photo Resources on Jan 13th, 2008 2 Comments »
Canon has released a pdf document: Canon Digital Color Management Guidebook (clicking this link will open a large pdf document in a new window).
Looks quite useful for users of all brands of camera and printer but especially useful to Canon DSLR users and/or users of Canon inkjet printers.
Posted in Photo Printing on Jan 7th, 2008 No Comments »
Rick LePage at Macworld looks at Epsons new photo printer.
Epson today announced the Stylus Photo R1900, a $550, B-size (13″ by 19″) desktop printer with pigment-based inks, advanced paper-handling capabilities and productivity features aimed at serious amateurs and professional photographers.
Posted in Macintosh, Photo Editing Software, Photo Printing on Dec 17th, 2007 No Comments »
Printing on Leopard with Lightroom 1.3.1
Update from Adobe on printing from Lightroom essentially telling everyone to check to see if your printer drivers are Leopard compatible.
For what it’s worth, I found that the current driver for my Canon Pixma Pro 9000 is both Tiger and Leopard compatible and should work fine with Lightroom when I [...]
Posted in Ideas, Photo Printing on Oct 9th, 2007 No Comments »
Film Drop-Off Sites Fade Against Digital Cameras
Fresh from a family vacation in California, Rick Wallerstein went to the Stop & Shop supermarket in Berkeley Heights, N.J., last month to drop off a roll of film, as he has done for about two decades.
But a sign on the familiar drop-box next to the juice aisle informed [...]
Posted in Photo Printing on Aug 29th, 2007 No Comments »
Eric Chan has a useful article: Getting Started with Inkjet Printing that covers printers, paper, ink types, color management, calibration, profiling, and more.
Eric Chan is a Visiting Scientist at Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories (MERL), where he conducts research in computer graphics.
[via Red River Paper Blog]
Posted in Photo Printing on Aug 16th, 2007 No Comments »
Photo Pro has a useful video on Paper Handling & Paper Selection for printing digital photographs.
[via Gary Sharp]
Posted in Macintosh, Photo Editing Software, Photo Printing on Jun 27th, 2007 No Comments »
This is a tip and/or reminder for anyone out there using Aperture.
Aperture has a feature called “Onscreen Proofing” that allows you to set the color-space (proofing profile) you’re doing your adjustments in; sRGB, Adobe RGB and any paper profiles you have installed.
Because I sometimes print direct from Aperture on Canon Fine Art Photo Rag paper, [...]
Posted in Photo Printing on Jun 6th, 2007 No Comments »
Interesting discussion of photographic print longevity in The New York Times: It Isn’t That Images Fade, It’s That They Can Vanish. The focus is Henry Wilhelm, one of the leading experts on printer, ink, and paper technologies and how they all affect print life as prints are exposed to light and air.
Of course, as a [...]
Posted in Photo Printing on May 15th, 2007 No Comments »
The Red River Paper Blog has a post on Custom Inkjet Book Printing that gives a nice overview of what’s possible on a home printer with simple software.
I’m not sure I like sprial or ring binding, prefering sewn or stapled bindings but that requires more sophisticated paper sizing on inside pages, etc. I might just [...]
Posted in Photo Printing on May 11th, 2007 No Comments »
Photo-i has an early review of the new Canon Pixma Pro9500, Canon’s pigment ink version of the dye ink Pixma Pro 9000.
(Source Red River Paper Blog.)
Posted in Photo Printing on May 2nd, 2007 No Comments »
Teaching the Color Printer the Language of Humanity and a Palette of Precision: “Xerox has introduced software that allows a user to adjust the shadings on a color printer by using simple English.”
(Source NYT > Business.)
Posted in Photo Printing on Mar 12th, 2007 No Comments »
The Epson 3800: Printer Notes and Resources is a collection of notes by Eric Chan about this new, mid-range pigment ink printer.
(Source Red River Paper Blog.)
Posted in Photo Printing, Photo Resources on Jan 23rd, 2007 No Comments »
Sean McHugh and the Cambridge University Photographic Society have a great article up at their site: Color Management Explained.
Anyone who takes pictures with a digital camera, processes them with a computer, and prints them should read this.
(Source Red River Paper Blog.)
Posted in Photo Printing on Dec 5th, 2006 3 Comments »
Macworld’s Rick LePage reviews Pigment vs. dye inks - Which is best?
Source: David Niemeijer
Posted in Photo Printing, Photo Resources on Nov 28th, 2006 No Comments »
Kevin Kelly has a nice post about Photostamps (being able to use your own images on real postage stamps).
Photostamps
20 stamps, 39 cents
$18
Available from Stamps.com
Two other sites offer a similar service for the same price. They offer mild design differences in the bar coded postage area.
PictureItPostage
Zazzle
(Source Cool Tools.)
Posted in Photo Printing, Photographers on Nov 19th, 2006 3 Comments »
Richard Lohmann is a professional photographer who does monochromatic work with medium format cameras and film and prints with an inkjet printer using carbon pigment inks.
His work is fantastic but it’s his printing process that caught my attention. He uses a high end ink jet printer but he fills his own cartridges with his own [...]
Posted in Photo Gear, Photo Printing on Nov 6th, 2006 6 Comments »
New York City. One of the areas I went to Photo Plus Expo to research was pigment ink inkjet printers for making archival prints. My first round of research (documented here) led me to the Canon i9900 printer which I have and love. But, as I knew, dye inks are less archival than pigment inks [...]
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