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>>3051892
Get a top quality printer and use a continuous ink system.

It's not rocket science.

Cutting your own sheets of hahnmule is a good way to reduce costs too.

Making nice mattes is the biggest ballache imo

>>3051894
I quite enjoy matte cutting, fresh blades are the key

do continuous ink systems fuck up your profiles and colour constancy ? or is that just a myth the local camera shops spread to keep people coming back?

>>3051898
You will need to profile whatever ink brand you put in, but apart from that they are much more reliable and you're not reliant on the shitty head in a disposable cartridge.

There's no point cheaping out on cis, use whatever is best for your printer. Keep everything clean and it will last a decade.

I have a Pixma Pro1

What are some fun/good photo papers to try out? I only used the standard Canon ones so far

>>3051919
Hahnemule is the industry standard range, there's little reason to use anything else.

Forget doing accurate prints without colour profiling hardware though.

>>3051967
any hardware you would recommend? Been wanting to do that for a while but not sure what I should look for

>>3051968

Use whatever brand you use for monitor calibration.

If you have no calibration, look at spyder and colormunki, you will need a screen profiler, print profiler and colour test cards. Expect to spend £300ish.

>>3051976
doesn't seem too expensive, I'll look into those thanks!

what exactly do you mean by "Use whatever brand you use for monitor calibration." though? The brand of the monitor or?

>>3051978
Nah, spyder and colormunki make very popular monitor calibration devices, most people will probably own one of these before moving onto print calibration. It's best to keep in one ecosystem as it makes the workflow smoother and more reliable.

When it comes to monitors, if accuracy is important, make sure it's ips and then it's pretty much a case of more money = better (even backlighting, no bleed, wider colour gamut, better response, better resolution). Nec and eizo do dedicated editing monitors with colour profiling hardware built in.

>>3051919
Moab has a very nice range of fiber papers that profile quite nicely with the Epsons without any special profiling equipment, don't know how they perform with Canon

I've got an old Pro9000 Mk2 that's started printing double lines. I can't figure out why and I'm wondering if it's worth bringing it to someone to look at. Shit sucks since I just bought all new ink cartridges for it. Nozzle tests and alignment all check out, it's when I set it up for a print job it happens.

>>3051984
thanks man, I have a Laptop with an ips monitor so that should be fine

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anyone know a way around crushed blacks when printing on watercolor paper?

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