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<blockquote data-quote="Dave_W" data-source="post: 226364" data-attributes="member: 9521"><p>My thoughts on printing your work is this - we all spend a small fortune on our cameras and lenses along with our computers and the software to process our images but the most important part of your work is the print. That is what everyone will see long after you're gone. Give this fact, it doesn't make sense that a photographer would leave the most important part of their art to a minimum wage kid processing hundreds of photos a day. Very subtle changes in your processing can produce large differences in your print. Even the paper you use plays a part in the final product. I know from experience that getting the image to look exactly like you intended it to look takes time and effort, not unlike taking the photo and processing it on your computer. So being the control freak with a raging case of OCD when it comes to their photography, allowing someone else to have the final say on my images was out of the question. Not only that but printing is fairly challenging and can be a lot of fun when you finally get where you want it to be. There's something very satisfying about knowing the image you hold in your hand is 100% your work from start to finish. At least for me, it is. </p><p></p><p>As for ink lines getting clogged, I've never had that problem and I've gone as long as 2 months between printing. I think Epson states that one should print at least once every 6 months in order to keep the nozzles clean. In addition, Epson's have a pretty good nozzle cleaning mode, if you do run into problems. As for print sizes, the largest the D2000 can print is 13 x 19 which is an excellent size because it requires almost no print cropping to achieve that size. As for paper, I really like Red River paper, it tends to be a thicker gauge than most of the name brands and the quality is excellent. Moreover, they have a variety of papers you can experiment with. </p><p></p><p>All in all, printing gives you complete control over your work and can be a heck of a lot of fun. Whether or not it's cost effective depends on what level of importance you place on your final work.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dave_W, post: 226364, member: 9521"] My thoughts on printing your work is this - we all spend a small fortune on our cameras and lenses along with our computers and the software to process our images but the most important part of your work is the print. That is what everyone will see long after you're gone. Give this fact, it doesn't make sense that a photographer would leave the most important part of their art to a minimum wage kid processing hundreds of photos a day. Very subtle changes in your processing can produce large differences in your print. Even the paper you use plays a part in the final product. I know from experience that getting the image to look exactly like you intended it to look takes time and effort, not unlike taking the photo and processing it on your computer. So being the control freak with a raging case of OCD when it comes to their photography, allowing someone else to have the final say on my images was out of the question. Not only that but printing is fairly challenging and can be a lot of fun when you finally get where you want it to be. There's something very satisfying about knowing the image you hold in your hand is 100% your work from start to finish. At least for me, it is. As for ink lines getting clogged, I've never had that problem and I've gone as long as 2 months between printing. I think Epson states that one should print at least once every 6 months in order to keep the nozzles clean. In addition, Epson's have a pretty good nozzle cleaning mode, if you do run into problems. As for print sizes, the largest the D2000 can print is 13 x 19 which is an excellent size because it requires almost no print cropping to achieve that size. As for paper, I really like Red River paper, it tends to be a thicker gauge than most of the name brands and the quality is excellent. Moreover, they have a variety of papers you can experiment with. All in all, printing gives you complete control over your work and can be a heck of a lot of fun. Whether or not it's cost effective depends on what level of importance you place on your final work. [/QUOTE]
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