Well, I just spent the entire week updating my website–getting rid of popups, increasing brightness for the Windows gamma, making it hopefully easier to navigate, and adding a new installation. It was kind of thrilling to re-visit my little creations, and to see how dang productive I was from 1999-2002. My experimentation with film was helpful, and fun, but I feel ready to get back to being a photographer. An exciting development is that there are a few archival ink-jet printers on the market that have pretty impressive picture quality (2800 x 1440 dpi), print 17″ wide (the component images of my grids are 15″ square), and rival C-prints in longevity. And get this, I’d cover my costs within two grids in the money I’d save in lab printing costs. This sounds almost too good to be true, and I haven’t done my research yet, but if it is possible for me to print at home, and get the quality and control that has eluded me at even the finest lab, I can not imagine how productive and happy I’d be. Plus I could ditch gelatin silver for a while for color and wouldn’t have to stand for 8 hours at a time breathing noxious fumes! Does anyone have any experience with these kinds of printers or inks?
Happy weekend…