FREE PHOTOGRAPHY SEMINAR & EXPO WITH DRAKE BUSATH - MARCH 19TH
InkjetART and Epson are sponsoring a half-day photography seminar with Drake Busath on Monday, March 19, 2007. This seminar and Epson product Expo will be at the Sheraton City Centre in Salt Lake City Utah, and will be FREE to InkjetART clients who register before the day of the seminar.
Drake Busath is well known for his portrait and wedding photography, and his Italy Workshops. He is also becoming known for his "Intimate World" fine art photography.
Drake's work is featured on the cover of December's Professional Photography Magazine. He and his father, Don, will be key speakers at next month's Professional Photographers of America's convention in San Antonio, Texas.
Busath has given many national programs about the transition from film to digital and efficient digital workflow. At our March 19th seminar, Drake will continue this tradition, along with ideas on better portraiture and wedding photography. He will also show how he has turned many of these portraits into "fine art" pieces for his clients. In addition, Drake will explain how he plans to transition into selling more of his "intimate World" fine art prints. (Many of Drake's portrait, wedding and fine art prints are done in house, using Epson printers.)
FREE LIMITED SEATING: Please reserve your spot at this seminar. Early registration is free. Registration at the door is $100, and probably will not be available. This half-day seminar and Expo is worth traveling to Salt Lake City.
THE WEEKLY SPECIAL:
See our online discounts on the following items for this week
(Thursday, December 28, Noon THROUGH Thursday, Jan. 4, 2007, 11:59 am MST):
For a limited time, Epson and InkjetART are offering instant rebates on two consumer inkjet printers. These printers are shown on our Web pages with their regular prices, BUT when you click on "Buy one," you will automatically be shown the reduce price in your shopping cart!
$50 Instant Rebate on Epson R260 printer thru Jan. 14, 2007
(Regular price is $129.99 - now only $79.99 with Instant Rebate)
$40 Instant Rebate on Epson R380 printer thru Jan. 14, 2007
(Regular price is $179.99 - now only $139.99 with Instant Rebate)
These two printers both utilize Epson's new Claria Ultra Hi-Definition dye ink and printing technology for clarity that lasts up to 200 years in album storage. Both printers can make borderless 4x6 photos in as fast as 13 seconds and better than lab quality in as fast as 32 seconds (the default). Both printers will print up to 8.5"x11" prints, and both will also do direct printing onto CDs/DVDs. The model R380 has a 3.5" color LCD and memory card slots for PC-free printing.
ROLLS vs. SHEETS - PROS & CONS
When the Epson Stylus Pro 3800 was first announced, many were disappointed that it did not offer roll paper support. While it's always nice to have plenty of options, we thought it would be a good idea to review some of the misconceptions about roll paper advantages over sheets, as well as the true benefits of using roll paper.
ROLL PAPER ADVANTAGES:
ECONOMY: False! It is a common misconception that roll paper costs less than sheets. Some roll sizes actually cost more per square foot than their comparable sheet formats, because of converting costs. Where rolls are less expensive, waste (the amount of leader required to start printing, and the space between each print) can quickly eliminate the price advantages.
UNIQUE SIZE OPTIONS: With roll paper, you can create virtually any print format, especially long panorama formats, and you often incur less waste on these non-standard sizes.
AUTO FEEDING OF HEAVY MEDIA: Many fine art papers, and all canvases can only be loaded one sheet at a time, so having the same media on a roll allows for uninterrupted printing of multiple print jobs - a real time saver.
BORDERLESS PRINTING: With some printers, this is the only way to get borderless printing on some format sizes.
UNATTENDED PRINTING: If you need to print fifty 16x20 prints unattended (overnight), a 100 foot roll will handle the job just fine. Most printers can only hold 25 or less sheets and will occasionally jam. If you're around to load more or fix the jam/mis-feed it's not a problem, but if you just went home and were expecting to find all your prints done when you came back - you'll be disappointed.
SHEET PAPER ADVANTAGES:
NO CURL: Having to uncurl or "D-roll" prints made from roll paper is time-consuming, whereas pre-cut sheets are already flat and ready to give out to your customers.
LESS or NO TRIMMING: Sheets require less post-printing trimming, or none at all.
TRUE BORDERLESS PRINTING, with no trimming: Even with "borderless" printing on roll paper, you might still have to trim off the top and bottom of the print (unless your printer supports "double-cut" - otherwise only the sides are "borderless" when using roll paper).
TRIMMING PRINTS: Need a good paper cutter? Your editor has used the British made RotaTrim brand for over 20 years and highly recommends this brand. I have an 18" model that after 20 years of use still cuts accurately with the same rotary blade. These trimmer/cutters can make even the slightest trim with superb accuracy and with the cleanest cut.
I have four models: 18", 24, 36" and a 54", and probably use the 24" the most. (Note: prices are in British pounds, and they only ship within England.)
POST-PRINTING LABOR on the above mentioned advantages over roll paper can really make a difference on some jobs. Your editor recently took in a job of making 70 - 16x20 borderless "photo" prints. The labor costs of having to uncurl and trim out this many prints from roll paper was very high. It would have better if I could have printed them borderless on an Epson 3800 using 16x20 sheet paper (which currently is not available). The slightly higher ink costs of the 3800 (over the 4800) and the additional ink waste due to borderless over-spray pales to the post-printing labor cost of un-curling and trimming.
TIME & INK to print: Borderless printing takes a little longer than regular printing partly because your image is actually enlarged by about 3% in the print spooling process, so the image will "bleed" off the edge of the print. Because the print heads have to travel a little further to make this over-spray, you'll waste a little bit of ink, and it will take a little longer to print over making the same size print on a larger sheet of paper (most printers will slow down and print with only a few nozzles when they start and finish borderless prints), and trimming to the final "borderless" size if necessary.
For instance, our tests showed that the Epson Stylus Pro 3800 make a 16x20 borderless print in 5 minutes, 52 seconds, whereas it made the same size print on a 17x22 sheet in 5 minutes, 31 seconds (only 21 seconds less). The advantage of the later method is accuracy - being able to have a borderless print (after trimming) that is cropped exactly as you want it. The advantage of the former, true borderless, method is not having to trim the print afterwards. The amount of ink wasted in the over-spray and the extra time to print is negligible.
YOUR INPUT: While the new Epson 3800 can make borderless 16x20 prints directly from sheets (the 4800 requires 16" roll paper), Epson has failed to bring 16x20 inkjet paper to market in time for the release of this printer! Although we suspect that they will eventually offer this sheet size in several surfaces, we'd like your input as to which surface and/or brand you'd like to see this format become available:
REPEAT input if you have multiple papers you'd like InkjetART to bring to market.
2:3 ASPECT RATIO MEDIA
Most professional single lens reflex digital cameras maintain the original 35mm aspect ratio (2:3) from the original 24mm x 36mm film format. Many photographer probably like this format (2:3 or 1:1.5) because it is closer to the proportions of the Golden Rectangle (using Phi or the Golden Ratio of (1:1.618...) than any other format.
13x19 is a format used by many photographers because they can print a 12x18 image (without cropping, when using the 35mm format) on this paper and include a 1/2 inch border all the way around the image.
17x25 is a format that some photographers would like to see become available for the 3800 and 4800 printers because it would allow them to make a 16x24 print and include a 1/2 inch border all the way around the image. If this is a format you'd also like us to bring to market, please give us your input below.
REPEAT input if you have multiple papers you'd like InkjetART to bring to market.
17X22 MEDIA FOR THE EPSON 3800 AND 4800
InkjetART has a larger selection of 17x22 ink jet media than anyone else on the planet:
On December 29, 2006 (at our 2:00 pm cut-off time) we will be changing our free shipping around. Because of increased shipping costs, orders over $149.99 will get free ground shipping. Currently orders over $99 get free ground shipping.
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