Digital BW, The Print

Good points David.

Let me present an alternate scenario for some who desire to make the best digital fine art print possible. In the occasional instance when one wants to print to a larger size it might make more sense to engage the services of a professional printer. One can develop an excellent relationship with a person who makes his/her livelihood printing editions for digital photographers. In the development of a professional relationship the expert printer will often be aware of the vision that each client has, and will match the paper and inks to the print desired. 

There are many well thought of digital photographers who are no longer printing their own work.  That is not to say that they relinquish control of their own work; they simply work with a printer so as to achieve the best results.

Certainly I'm aware that price considerations will often drive printing decisions.

Needless to say the same approach regarding the use of expert printers has been used by analog photographers for many years.

There will likely be no appreciable difference in the appearance of an 11x14 black-and-white digital print made on the same paper using the 3880, 3000, 2880, or 1430. Indeed one wonders if there will be any appreciable difference up to a print of 13 x 19 or even slightly larger.

Note of course I am alluding to prints made from the same black and white ink sets, i.e., the same number of carts with the same shades of MIS or Cone inks.

The" pros" here may well need a professional model printer. It is likely that many of us do not.

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> On Jul 8, 2015, at 3:56 PM, David Whistance david.whistance@btopenworld.com [DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint] <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
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> No it doesn’t have vacuum feed. I’ve always thought of the 3800/3880 as essentially a larger desktop printer as opposed to the professional models which start properly with the 4xxx series. As a result I’ve always found the paper feed on my two 3800’s very fussy compared with the 9800’s, 7880’s or 4800’s I also have. Still produces nice prints though, just very frustrating at times when the larger models aren’t.
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> I see the benefit of the 38xx series as being the bigger cartridges compared with the other desktop machines although if you are refilling with B&W inks that isn’t really worthwhile. They also give you a larger print size in a smaller unit - the 4xxx series are really much bigger.
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>> On 8 Jul 2015, at 23:47, Matt Haber matt@... [DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint] <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
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>> Does the 3880 have a vacuum feed?
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>>  The paper feed on the 3880 is certainly better than the 1430.However many here will likely have little reason to print supersize-even if our digital files supported such printing.
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