May 20

I am going print crazy.

I started printing today.  It’s been a pretty deep experience already.  I started the day by organizing my master file with all the pictures included in the book.  I made three files for different sized prints and put photos in each, just based on which size I think might lend itself well to the subject and quality of the image I was looking at.  Maybe the images chose the size, not the other way around.

Then I  began looking at some prints I have and the cut matts I purchased.  I looked to see which size left a nice boarder to fit in the window.  Then I had to do some math to figure out how to replicate it back at the printer.  I figured it out and it looks pretty nice and its easy to reproduce that border in other prints.

Then, it was on to making prints – where I am now.  I began printing and got one off nicely – I was done with it.  Then I went to print a small test photo of another image and I noticed in this one that there were vertical lines throughout the paper but really only noticeable in the darker sections of the photo.  My print heads were misaligned.  If that’s a word… So currently I am re-aligning them.

I will blog later, I think, but this is a perfect example of printing: a lot of fun with bumps along the way, and if you aren’t willing or able to get past them with little to no frustration, then this printing game isn’t really for you.