Cal has the 3880 setup that I hope to obtain one day, once my 3880 is repaired!
George,
It took me two years to save for both the 27 inch Eizo, the 3880, and for the stockpile of supplies. The printer I bought taking advantage of a $250.00 rebate, and understand that the 3880 is regarded as a great workhorse. About two years ago I paid about $1050.00 for the printer and then got the $250.00 rebate check about a month later.
Does your printer have clogged nozzles due to sporatic use? If so I would try to unclog it with Piezoflush which is known to rescue printers with clogged nozzles.
Also note that I ordered a complete set of extra carts so that I can safely store my printer by flushing out all the ink with Piezoflush and storing it with Piezoflush in the lines.
Printing is so much fun. Ive been printing 6-10 8 1/2x11's every few days or so I have a happy printer. Since the first week in January I made about 75 prints and I need to stockplie more paper soon. All of my work prints display a HDR like resolution and tonality, and if I have a good file shot at a high shutter speed the results from my Monochrom make the jump into medium format quality.
Perhaps next month I'll bring mucho prints to the March Meet-Up. By then I should have a 20x30 inch print of "Sal" mentioned above from DSI. Not sure if I'll be up to printing 13x19 or 17x22 by then. The Jon Cone paper I use gets kinda expensive in the larger sizes, and I want to ensure I have my print quality nailed in my work prints/proofs before I print for real.
Anyways some Diane Arbus disturbing images somehow comes out in my street shooting. Some of my subjects kinda resemble "monsters."
Cal