Posted in Photo Printing on Sep 19th, 2006 4 Comments »
Moo is a printing service linked to flickr that makes printing small business card size cards of flickr images easy and fun. Great UI on the site. The first ten cards are free for anyone with a flickr pro account (good hook).
Even though I can make cards easily on my own printer I’ll definitely use [...]
Posted in Photo Printing, Photo Resources on Sep 9th, 2006 No Comments »
Pictopia is a web-based photo finisher that specializes in large scale prints on archival paper. You can do a 4′ x 8′ print for $350. Gad, the thought of it. Seriously, you can do smaller stuff too and their prices are competitive.
(Source Cool Tools.)
Posted in Photo Printing on Jun 16th, 2006 No Comments »
Red River Paper has a useful list of tips for printing thick papers on inkjet printers. Given that I’m doing a lot of this lately this was useful for me to read. Maybe it will be useful to you.
Red River is an excellent supplier with excellent inkjet printer photo paper products. They also have lots [...]
Posted in Photo Printing on May 22nd, 2006 2 Comments »
Red River Paper has a review of the new Canon Prograf iPF5000 which is a high-end, pigment ink photo printer. It’s big, heavy, expensive and it looks like a winner.
This printer is Canon’s entry to compete with the Epson 4800.
Posted in Photo Printing on May 17th, 2006 318 Comments »
In the very last paragraph of my post on Buying a photo printer I noted that my friend Dale had been having problems with his Canon i9900, the same printer I have.
I’ve printed hundreds of images on my printer and only a few have shown problems but they were so minor I let them pass. [...]
Posted in Photo Gear, Photo Printing on May 5th, 2006 25 Comments »
Background
I’ve avoided buying a photo printer for years. I had various early color inkjet printers and they always seemed to have problems and the results in those very early days were not worth the problems. I ended up using online services like Printroom.com and Apple’s iPhoto direct printing (done by Kodak) and have continued to [...]
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