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I asked in the gear thread first but got no replies, which I suppose is to be expected, so I'm here to ask the board's real photographers.
I bought a Canon Pixma Pro 1 pigment printer for $700 with about 10 spare inks and generally pretty full carts inside.
I'll be using it to print my colour film scans.
Anybody have some sweet recommendations for paper, or general use of this thing?
I'm moderately concerned that taking on my own printing is where my rejection of Adobe Bloatoshop in favour of GIMP will come to bite me in the ass.
As far as paper goes, my preference for real photo paper is cooltone doubleweight glossy fibre, which I do not tone or finish in a print burnisher/hot press/whatever they're called. This gives good contrast, but leaves the paper still with a bit of tooth. I'm thinking that for colour pigment printing, a nice matte paper with the chroma optimiser finish over the top will come close?
>also how fucked am I for ink costs???
