>>4112641You contact print cyanotypes in the sun you midwit.
>>4112755Find a good local printer or online giclee service. Its not worth your time or money to get your own equipment if you don't print all the time.
>>4112784Not really, dye based inks aren't lightfast. Not super familiar with this model, but different media type support is must for any fine art printing.
>>4112882It has a strange look to it, works with some b/w images, but gives this strange yellow/blue color cast depending on angle. I don't like the look. Just use Ilford galarie gold fiber silk if you want the high contrast look.
>>4113466This isn't true. I offer a giclee printing service here in the states and my bottom line $.005/sq in for ink and .003-.015/sq in for paper. I use an ipf8400, the epsons use a lot more ink due to inferior design.
>>4112691You're probably thinking of soft-proofing. Which is where you set up your monitor to look like a print. This is very useful since it saves paper. Basically any monitor can be setup for soft proofing since prints are always darker, less saturated, and have less tonal range than monitors.
To do it correctly, you'll need a spectrophotometer(like an i1 pro) or colorimeter(colormunki), but you can get close just by adjusting the brightness, contrast, and white point of your monitor. Take the brightness to about 10-20% of maximum(it will be very dark, prints are dark), set contrast to 100. Choose custom color and set the red and green channels to 100 and blue to 80. This will get you 80% there even if you don't profile your monitor.
The final step, you must enable soft proofing profiles in photoshop. Ask your printer what printer/papers they use. Go to the paper makers website and download their generic icc profiles for whatever print/paper combo your printer is using. Add these to color system folder, restart photoshop and enable it in view -> proof colors.
