That’s a big printer. No room for that monster. We used to have something similar in our design and exhibit shop.

And that position is for my replacement on the PR and marketing side of the house. I’ve been doing two jobs for a long time now and as a big project deadline looms it just made sense for me to focus. Hopefully we’ll find someone with a Vespa…. *grin*.

All of this kind of stuff requires a lot of work as you rightly point out. And content. And the right expertise. Stephanie Yue has a great resource of content from her travels along with expertise as an illustrator. Seems like a perfect mix.

I have a document in Evernote titled “SITS Book Project Notes” that I have been adding ideas and plans and other notes for awhile. Someday I’ll move from plans to action. Hopefully.

A book has been floating around in my head and on my to do lists for a long time. But it remains daunting at the moment. Perhaps an exhibit is a first step. What scares me about a book is how many bad ones there are. I want to make sure I can commit to making a good one from concept to content to execution.

“Smooth as a good glass of scotch.” I like that. Single malt?

Thanks for you kind words about the things I post. Just trying to work diligently removing noise from my head and reducing it to text and images…

You’re right about the workflow for digital printing being different than working in a chemical darkroom. But I can see how the “ambience” of the event could be just as engaging if the digital darkroom is configured in the right way. The sound of the printer has a calming effect — nothing like the early dot matrix printers with tractor fed paper.

I’m slowly working through the ins and outs of printing but I already see possibilities that would have been difficult and costly in traditional printing.

So, I’m thinking or presentation, sales, and reach of the images to more people. Hard to ever beat the numbers piled up on Scooter in the Sticks where the views of images is in the millions. But a conventional exhibit is a different experience. Saint’s Cafe doesn’t have the space for an exhibit. I’ll have to think hard on a location.

I started on my “hybrid” photographic path in 1998 when, fed up with not having regular access to a “proper” wet darkroom, I took heed of the late Quentin Crisp’s adage “swim with the tide, only faster”, and bought three items: a new 13-inch format Epson SP 1200 printer, a used Nikon LS-10 35mm film scanner, and a Yamaha 4x CD burner – this was back when all three items were still regarded as somewhat esoteric. The equipment has decidedly changed up a bit since then, but my workflow hasn’t changed much: I do have a few digital cameras in my photo array, but film still rules for the most part. Print-wise, however, I pretty much left the wet darkroom for dead, even though it was murder for the first few years in terms of black-and-white, where inkjet printing took a long time to catch up with silver printing (and sometimes still takes a back seat, IMO), even though I’m rather content with the output quality now. I’ve made prints for exhibits, including one of my own, and while it’s frequently a high-wire act, at least when things go wrong, I now have a reasonable idea in terms of the what and why.

After years of avoiding Epson, I’m back in their camp – somewhat reluctantly – with an “inherited” R3000, the immediate predecessor to their P-series (like yours). They keep swearing “we licked the clogging problem, honest!”, but you’ll have to pardon me for squinting a bit when I hear this.

At any rate, I’m looking forward to hearing about your progress with the printer. And, if you end up with an exhibit somewhere, I certainly want to know about it. It’s obvious you’ve got a damned good eye, seeing results in print form would be a genuine treat.

Everything is impermanent but a hard print on the wall in a frame is waaaay more permanent than something stored on Googles hard drive in San Jose.

Now let me make the case for Scooter in the Sticks photos. It would be hard to do any better in areas of community and unity than a blog like that. Those friendships you make through the blog would be really important to me. To me, that counts big time.
Paul

Oh, and there was much discussion around the office this week, when a position looking very much like yours came up on the PSU jobs board.