Month: September 2005

ah, the last print…

too bad I’m not overly happy with the quality of some of these. fortunately, this is just the first crit, I think I can aford to have slightly sub-par quality.

ah, and of course now I find the print head alignment control. I’m curious to see if it would have made a difference (the onscreen images were pretty darn clear and the prints at home were really nice) but I’m too damn tired to care too much at this point.

Still Printing.

Ah the smell of inkjet ink, not quite as intoxicating as developer chemicals, but still something to be appreciated by the late night artist.

After getting 4 prints out, and finally determining that 36 minutes per print is remarkably slow, it now turns out that there’s a part broken in the printer that ends up dragging and scratcing prints. Somehow I’ve been fortunate enough to only have it ruin one so far, but now I’m basically paranoid to put paper in it, for fear that it will scratch more, and of course each scratched print is not only a piece of paper wasted, but at least 15 minutes because I can’t even see that its scratching until it’s printed a certain amount. I thought, at first, that maybe the tractors had just come loose, but on closer inspection, the pin that’s supposed to hold the tractors in place has busted off and one tractor is hanging lower than the rest. If I could find some way to move or raise that tractor, I could at least go back to printing, but I’m afraid anything I do as a temporary fix may cause longer, lingering damage. If it were my printer, I’d be game for it, but unfortunately, the school is not so amenable to me McGuyver-ing their hardware. I kind of think Jason would be a bit put off as well. I’ll just have to tell him about it on Monday. Maybe I’ll just get way behind on printing, but have all of tomorrow off. Wouldn’t that be nice? Then I could play some WoW.

I wonder how much a 2200 of my own would cost.

Update, I did a couple small tests, ran some scraps through and the scratching seems to have subsided for the time being. My current plan is to print until either A) I can’t stand being up here anymore or B) another sheet of paper gets wasted. I’d love to get 10 prints done today, hell, I’d love to get 20 prints done today, but at this rate, it ain’t gonna happen. Lessee, it’s just after 6 now, to get all 20 prints done with no errors would be 2am at the earliest. Yeah, not happening I bet.

Oh, and a 2200 still runs around $3-500. A 2400, which is the new 8 color equivalent, runs about $900.

so, yeah, these photos take 36 minutes a piece to print out. I doubt I’ll get all 20 done today.