[MtnBikerNJ]

just a little rant. no one is here at work yet so i have to scream at someone... I came in a hour early to work (got here 7:30) because a client needed the prints this morning. So after working until 1am on the images (add in an hour commute) I'm tired, and the Fuji jammed and wouldn't become un-stuck no matter what I did. SH!T. Call client. now I have to walk the prints over personally, which is no small feat considering the studio is across town and no close subway access. And the printer still isn't working. and its a deadline, that is now late.

i HATE the damn fuji pictros. those of you who have to deal with them will know what I mean...

ok, I'm done now...

EDIT. ok, I'm not done... I was making a backup print on our iris 2Print printer since the fuji wasn't co-operating. and now that one has a pen problem. UN-FVGGING-BELIEVABLE. our only 2 printers, and neither one of them is working. i think I'm going to scream. or cry. or something. SH!!!!!!!!!T.
and the day will surely go downhill from here.

 

[Toshi]

lame. i don't know what you're talking about (pen? is this a dye-sub? a line plotter? heh) but it doesn't sound fun in any case

 

[Slugman]

Kinkos? I know they are a rip off... but to save the account, it's worth the investment.

 

[MtnBikerNJ]

its sort of a laser printer. it prints digital c prints. well sort of. without the chemical processing. Its hard to explain. but the prints, when the thing is working properly, look like real photographic prints instead of an inkjet. but they are notorious for jamming.

the iris is basically an overblown expensive inkjet printer...

and kinko's couldn't hardly come anywhere close to the quality, especially considering one of the major things is getting a color accurate print.. I'd have to go to some of my competition to get a print like what I needed..

 

[stosh]

cliff notes?

 

[MtnBikerNJ]

here is a pic...

yours can be one too for a mere $10,000 ( I think that's the current price). prints cost about 7-8 bucks a pop for a 12x18 print (straight materials cost - but add in the printer cost and maintenance agreement...)


http://www.fujifilm.com/JSP/fuji/epartners/Products.jsp?nav=1&parent=PRODUCT_CATEGORY_652938&product=6382440

 

[Clark Kent]

Just picked this up...Dont know what it ended up costing us, but it aint bad for proofs and such.

...Canon iR C3200...

 

[Squeak]

Just picked this up...Dont know what it ended up costing us, but it aint bad for proofs and such.

...Canon iR C3200...

Hey we got two of those in March. They are pretty good, not too many problems yet.

 

[Clark Kent]

No problem here...yet... but I dont think it gets used too much either...

 

[MtnBikerNJ]

color copier? how's the quality for proofs.. i can't imagine they are really SWOP spec...

 

[stosh]

I got this bad boy at home. Some times I have to print things on "HIGH" resolution instead of "draft" so I kicked it up a notch with this purchase.
I got some kick a$$ free software with it.

 

[syadasti]

I got this bad boy at home. Some times I have to print things on "HIGH" resolution instead of "draft" so I kicked it up a notch with this purchase.
I got some kick a$$ free software with it.

Yeah, what he really need is dot matrix baby...maybe dig up an old stylewriter or one of these babies

 

[stosh]

Yeah, what he really need is dot matrix baby...maybe dig up an old stylewriter or one of these babies

nothing like a good old ribbon feed!!!

 

[MtnBikerNJ]

bwaaaaah... dot matrix.. yea as long as the printer was hole fed... remember those. eek. it was my first printer...