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Wonderfull printer you have there. I have mine since February last year. Very impressed by those prints! Now...get that nice fine art paperMy new printer arrived:
Yes I know: IPad image
Now I‘m thinking about a sturdy table that holds the 40kg of this monster.
Did you print before? If so, what printer?
Ikea has a chest drawer that' s not too expensive/ has wheels and 6 drawers (very handy) / is sturdy enough and fits the ImagePrograf Pro1000 very nice. Mine sits on one of these. Perfect.
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ALEX Drawer unit on casters
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Sure. In the company I was with before I retired. But this doesn’t count. It where some of these devices that look like an ironing machine. And this task wasn’t in my departmentWonderfull printer you have there. I have mine since February last year. Very impressed by those prints! Now...get that nice fine art paperMy new printer arrived:
Yes I know: IPad image
Now I‘m thinking about a sturdy table that holds the 40kg of this monster.
Did you print before? If so, what printer?
@home with the usual consumer stuff from Canon, Brother etc. In the analog days with an Durst M 805. I was equipped up to 30 x 40. Or I gave them images away to a good local lab.What I wasn’t aware of is that there are still baryt papers available for b/w like Agfa Brovira which was my favorite paper. My local guru sends my a little sortiment to try for free. Great.
A precious hint. I’ll take a look at this thing.
If you like provide an image of this setup.
Thanks in advance.
Best regards, Karl
TMFKAK wrote:
mujana wrote:
TMFKAK wrote:
My new printer arrived:
Yes I know: IPad image
Now I‘m thinking about a sturdy table that holds the 40kg of this monster.
Wonderfull printer you have there. I have mine since February last year. Very impressed by those prints! Now...get that nice fine art paper
Did you print before? If so, what printer?
Sure. In the company I was with before I retired. But this doesn’t count. It where some of these devices that look like an ironing machine. And this task wasn’t in my department @home with the usual consumer stuff from Canon, Brother etc. In the analog days with an Durst M 805. I was equipped up to 30 x 40.
Nice!
Sorry for the bad IQ. Just an image from my iPhone 5 minutes ago.
By the way...I can recommend the Printing forum! I learned a lot there.
mujana wrote:
TMFKAK wrote:
My new printer arrived:
Yes I know: IPad image
Now I‘m thinking about a sturdy table that holds the 40kg of this monster.
Wonderfull printer you have there. I have mine since February last year. Very impressed by those prints! Now...get that nice fine art paper
Did you print before? If so, what printer?
Sure. In the company I was with before I retired. But this doesn’t count. It where some of these devices that look like an ironing machine. And this task wasn’t in my department
@home with the usual consumer stuff from Canon, Brother etc. In the analog days with an Durst M 805. I was equipped up to 30 x 40.Nice!
Don’t know that paper. With my Pro1000 I use Hahnemühle fine art papers (including Photo Rag Baryta). I especially like the matte papers (with a little texture).
If you do this search, your first result will probably be this Ikea ALEX.
Sorry for the bad IQ. Just an image from my iPhone 5 minutes ago.
By the way...I can recommend the Printing forum! I learned a lot there.
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Haha that is a beast! I bought the smaller, Pro 100 a couple of years ago when it went on sale for $160 (including a pack of photo paper!). I had never seen one in the wild and a number of reviews mentioned just buying a new one when ink ran out given ink was close to $160.
Given this behavior I figured it was not much bigger than the typical $100 inkjet at Office Depot. Imagine my surprise when I came home to a the massive 3ft tall box sitting on my porch. Our house was over 100 yrs old-I could barely get the thing through the doors. Can't imagine the size of the box for your 1000 series.
By the way-I've had good luck with Precision Colors ink refill. 1st refill was a learning experience but I'm now able to quickly refill and reduced the cost of prints to 1/4 Canon prices which is nice since I'm just a hobbyist.
Given this behavior I figured it was not much bigger than the typical $100 inkjet at Office Depot. Imagine my surprise when I came home to a the massive 3ft tall box sitting on my porch. Our house was over 100 yrs old-I could barely get the thing through the doors. Can't imagine the size of the box for your 1000 series.
By the way-I've had good luck with Precision Colors ink refill. 1st refill was a learning experience but I'm now able to quickly refill and reduced the cost of prints to 1/4 Canon prices which is nice since I'm just a hobbyist.
Nice that ink refills from Precision Colors work for you and the Pro 100. I would never try any other ink than original Canon. Maybe different for dye printers. Don’t know.
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Don89
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I’ve heard that beast eats ink for maintenance cycles. Is that true..?
In my opinion, no. But then again, this is my subjective opinion ofcourse. Then it also depends on what you compare it to. I can imagine there are other printers that use more on maintenance cycles.
Surely ink in general is not cheap, but in this case you get 80ml cartridges. First badge free with the printer. About half of that is used for filing pipes/installing. Because of those large cartridges it’s probably less expensive than a smaller printer with smaller cartridges. On the printing forum there’s more information about this. Some have done exact calculations.
All in all it surely is a printer, that likes to run...and work. I wouldn’t leave it untouched for months and months.
I print a nozzle check maybe once or twice a week (normal paper and hardly any ink). Once I did not print for a number of weeks. No problem at all.
So far (since february), I’ve printed around 40 large A2 , 50 A4 and around 15 A3 sized images. My second ink set is 3/4 full.
When I have to buy a new ink set (12 cartridges), then that’s a few hundred euros (around €500,-). One box of A2 Hahnemühle Fine Art paper like Museum Etching costs around €200,- where I live. Expensive? Well it’s a lot of money, but I cannot get this quality any cheaper and once I see the results, it’s all worth it.
Printing isn’t a cheap hobby. Especially not, if you want top quality prints.
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Hi all,
good things need sometimes a little while:
Here is this custom made table:
It is nearly a heavy as the printer ;-)
Best regards.
P.S.: It's from Deitenbach
good things need sometimes a little while:
Here is this custom made table:
It is nearly a heavy as the printer ;-)
Best regards.
P.S.: It's from Deitenbach
Greg7579
Forum Pro
That is awesome. I might try to print, but if that arrived that would be the end of the road for me. I can talk Teresa into letting me spend big money on gear, but if I came rolling in with that she would kill me.
Stan Disbrow
Veteran Member
Hi,
The Epson P5000 is at the house, it fit perfectly on one of the large carts we make up for the screenprinting shop.
And the DTG is at the SP shop on a steel workbench we found at the local home improvement store.
For me, the final output for everything photographic is the print. I was never into slides, so I guess that is why the screen isn't what I am into these days.
Stan
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Once you start down the DSLR path, forever will it dominate your destiny! Consume
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The Epson P5000 is at the house, it fit perfectly on one of the large carts we make up for the screenprinting shop.
And the DTG is at the SP shop on a steel workbench we found at the local home improvement store.
For me, the final output for everything photographic is the print. I was never into slides, so I guess that is why the screen isn't what I am into these days.
Stan
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Amateur Photographer
Professional Electronics Development Engineer
Once you start down the DSLR path, forever will it dominate your destiny! Consume
your bank account, it will! Like mine, it did!
"...try to print..."
Printing is what i missed so much since decades. It's the real thing.
In the early 80's i owned a Durst M 805 with a 50 mm Nikkor enlarger lens plus the trays, bottles, tanks etc. for 13 x 18, 18 x 24 and 30 x 40. All b/w. Color was by far too expensive. Some real nerdish gear. But i had a lot of fun with it.
He, and now i'm back ;-)
Please keep us updated about your print results.
Rich42
Senior Member
That's great!Hi all,
good things need sometimes a little while:
Here is this custom made table:
It is nearly a heavy as the printer ;-)
Best regards.
P.S.: It's from Deitenbach
I'm glad to see someone else on the forum who understands that the print is the final image. I spent most of my adult life in one kind of a darkroom or another making photographic prints and have used mostly Epson large format printers until a few years ago when the third one I owned died.
I'll be getting a 24" Canon printer later this year.
We have many contributors here on the forum who only view their images on monitor screens. They are heathens and, try as we might, can't get them to see the errors of their ways. They know not what they know not. They are wandering in the wilderness of printed image quality.
;-)
That's a serious table you have there. I wish that Deitenbach site had an English language version. Are you in Germany?
Rich
Rob de Loe
Veteran Member
There must be something in the water! I just set one of these Canon Pro 1000 printers up this week. It replaced my Epson 3880, which conked out on me recently. Service places won't touch it because I'm running a custom monochrome inkset. I may buy the parts and try to fix it myself.
In the meantime, I've been getting to know the Canon Pro 1000. It is considerably more complicated to run one of these than an Epson 3880. Print quality is outstanding, in both black and white and colour. Matte black and white is much cooler than on my Epson 3880. It will take some work to figure out how to get the tones I'm looking for on my favourite papers.
The main "downside" of the Canon Pro 1000 seems to be the amount of ink that it uses for maintenance. It's a really poor choice for someone who prints only occasionally; in an occasional use scenario, most of the ink will end up in the maintenance cart.
In the meantime, I've been getting to know the Canon Pro 1000. It is considerably more complicated to run one of these than an Epson 3880. Print quality is outstanding, in both black and white and colour. Matte black and white is much cooler than on my Epson 3880. It will take some work to figure out how to get the tones I'm looking for on my favourite papers.
The main "downside" of the Canon Pro 1000 seems to be the amount of ink that it uses for maintenance. It's a really poor choice for someone who prints only occasionally; in an occasional use scenario, most of the ink will end up in the maintenance cart.
matteroner
Senior Member
I have this printer, it's fantastic. But after seeing the prints I instantly wanted a 4100! It comes with a stand
.But my house is pretty small, so storing and hanging 44 inch prints might get difficult.
I usually print every day or every other day. Ink usage seems reasonable, they have a nice software that shows how much ink is used per print. It doesn't calculate maintenance loss, but it can be calculated with the data given.
I've only printed black and white.
Favorite paper is moab juniper barayta.
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