Archive for the 'Photo Printing' Category

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 [...]

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A set of excellent notes on making photo books with Blurb: Want to Make a Blurb Book?.

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Polaroid Abandons Instant Photography
Gary, better stock up on film, this is the end of Polaroid dye transfers.
[via kottke.org]

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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.

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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.

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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]

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Photo Pro has a useful video on Paper Handling & Paper Selection for printing digital photographs.
[via Gary Sharp]

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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, [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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.)

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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.)

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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.)

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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.)

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Macworld’s Rick LePage reviews Pigment vs. dye inks - Which is best?
Source: David Niemeijer

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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.)

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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 [...]

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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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