zakezuke said:
And time. Dont' get me wrong... I print with aftermarket ink my self.
It's not like you can trully fill your printer with 100 sheets of
letter/a4 sized photo paper and let it go on it's way, given the
volume of consumer inkjet carts you'd be lucky to get 1/2 those on a
normal sized tank, plus the fact that a new printer is going to have a
learning curve as far as color rendering, but even if you go the
default settings we are talking 40 sheets a print job before one needs
to refill. The number of jobs you can do in a day depend on how much
time you can dedicate to walking back to your printer and adding more
ink. If this is an 10 year archive you are reprinting... this isn't a
small job, this is a huge job. Days, weeks, months... huge job.
I'm not saying it's a bad plan, nor a good plan.... only you are
losing more than 10cents/print. I can see where one might want to
spend extra on their series of 2min jobs, do it right the first time,
and not have a huge job to do in 10 years.
Ok, sure, you can't expect anyone to refresh, say, 10.000 prints every 10
years...i guess i'm talking mostly for home use, where a couple of shots are
present, like your kid, pet, whatever...
and i mean that these days archiving is no longer on paper, but rather on
digital media. So, printing is made only a couple of selected shots, rest
are safely stored digitally. This wasn't possible with negative, since
negative did loose quality, while digitals don't...but, as said, it's a good
idea to make a backup every, say, 10 years, while also in that time a new
media comes out and you copy while stuff there...like, say, you have 5 CDR's
of shots, now youcan make a backup copy of one single DVD-R (ok, two
identical). 10 years from now, i guess we'll make a backup on maybe bluray
disc...but the point is that quality of original will remain intact.
