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Devious Journal Entry

Sat Apr 4, 2009, 12:08 PM
Up to this point, no one has purchased any of my prints so I haven't been able to ask anyone if what they thought of the quality of the images. Not just the quality of my work but also the quality of the printing that deviantART does.

I belong to two sites that can print pictures for me - deviantART and Zenfolio. I've read good reviews of both and figured I should order a couple of prints from each place to find out what the quality was like... but never have. The reason for that is that I have a fairly decent printer.

I have an Epson Stylus Pro 4800. It cost me a little over $3000 when I got it and I thought it was going to be quite useful but to be honest, I hardly ever print anything with it and if I could, I'd go back in time and spend the money on something else.

The best thing about having it is that if I need a large, high quality print of something I can get it within 10 minutes. The worst thing about it is that it costs quite a bit of money to keep it running. Whether I use it or not I have to keep the print heads clean and to do that requires printing a test sheet at least once a week. If all I did was print test sheets, I'd go through 8 220ml cartridges and a waste ink container every year. Altogether that's a little over $1000 just to keep it running.

Just the other day someone I work with asked if she could buy a print of one of my fractal images and I thought this would be a great opportunity to order a print from deviantART. I wasn't sure which type of print to order so I thought I'd get two, one fine art print and one on lustre paper. The two prints have been shipped separately and the luster print arrived yesterday and it looks very good. I'm very happy with the quality of the paper and the colour and quality of the image. I printed out a copy of the same image on my home printer and it's almost exactly the same. The only real difference is that mine lays flat and the one from deviantART is all rolled up from spending time in a tube... obviously not that big a deal.

I'm still waiting for the other print to show up but so far I'm giving deviantART prints a big thumbs up.

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  • Current Residence: Saskatoon
  • Interests: Photography, Car Racing, Cycling, Beautiful Women
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  • Favourite genre of music: Rock
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  • Personal Quote: Keep your friends close... and your friends with benefits even closer
  • Tools of the Trade: Sony Alpha 700, Minolta D7, Intuos 3

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