Beginner question

[slungu]

Hello everybody,

I am looking for a printer that is good enough for printing color and digital negatives. I would be content with a printer that can do A4, but should be able to print on thicker papers and good for digital negatives for UV processes. Is there such a tool or do I have to pay the premium for a larger printer. I have not seen too much about the Canon printers on this site. Is there a reason for this ?

Regards, Stefan

[dwross]

A "Today's Posts" ping.

(Because I'd like to see it stay easily visible until someone posts a response.)

[Don Bryant]

A "Today's Posts" ping.

(Because I'd like to see it stay easily visible until someone posts a response.)

Okay. I would suggest to the OP that he/she search or browse the forums since this topic has been fairly well discussed of late.

Don

[dwross]

Okay. I would suggest to the OP that he/she search or browse the forums since this topic has been fairly well discussed of late.

Don

Well...I suspect I'm going to get myself in trouble here. I'm sitting here putting off doing a bunch of scans of this week's work. Procrastination is a dangerous thing .

Hybrid is growing - slowly to be sure, but there is very little fluff, so there's actually quite a bit of solid information here. I'd love to see us figure out how to organize things so that all the good stuff can be found easily. All I've come up with so far is a volunteer "librarian" concept where an individual watches for a topic that they know something about and 'collates'?, 'tags'?, 'wikis'?, 'links'? I'm sure there's a tool/concept that will work here, if there is any interest.

[Don Bryant]

but there is very little fluff, so there's actually quite a bit of solid information here. I'd love to see us figure out how to organize things so that all the good stuff can be found easily.

Denise,

Isn't the Forum Search engine good enough? And making a wiki-library or whatever; isn't that reinventing what the forum does to begin with?

Don

[dwross]

It's sometimes hard to know if something is a 'simplifier' or a 'complicator". Danged if I know which this is. I just searched 'canon printers' and got 20 threads, each with a number of replies. It would be hard to search through that much data if you knew what you were looking for. When you're searching for newbie info, you can get hit with the Paradox Whammy. How do you know what you don't know? Even chocolate can't fix that one.

I know that 'it' would take volunteers (whatever form 'it' might take.) jd doesn't have time - at least at present.
I could only volunteer to collate silver gelatin emulsion and darkroom chemistry (and maybe, at a stretch, Pentax K10's) That's cheap words because of the stunning lack of interest in those topics here. It would take five minutes a day. Being in charge of digital negative info coordination could be a part time job.

It probably comes down to what we feel the role of this site is. I suspect I'm in the minority by wanting hybrid to be more than the digital answer spot for APUG. It does that very well, as is. If we want it to be a place where we are all out front together creating a new way of looking at art - and we are inclusive and welcoming to newcomers (including I hope young people who may not have the confidence to push dialogue with geezers (excuse me, with seasoned professionals) we may want to think about why the traffic here is slow and getting slower.

Just a thought. Now, I'll finally get to that scanning and stop torturing people .

denise

[Katharine Thayer]

I tried searching on "gum" and came up with no matches at all, although there is information on gum woven into various threads here. I don't know how useful the information contained within those threads would be to beginners even if they could access it, but at any rate the information about gum that's available here is apparently not accessible through the search engine.
kt

[Don Bryant]

The search engine on HybridPhoto is broken. Using the search engine on APUG works as expected.

My point was and is, if the search engine is working properly there isn't a need to re-invent the wheel. The Forums are a knowledge base.

Don

[dwross]

My point was and is, if the search engine is working properly there isn't a need to re-invent the wheel. The Forums are a knowledge base.

Don

Ah! A philosophical fork in the road: I rejoice in reinventing wheels.

[Katharine Thayer]

Ah! A philosophical fork in the road: I rejoice in reinventing wheels.