Future Acquisitions

[nockergeek]

Things We Need to Get Before Our First Major Convention in '06
- Good/high-quality laser color printer (for doing our own prints)
- Good digital camera (for con pictures and for recording commission pieces)
- Paper cutter (for cutting bristol board)
- Button-making kit (for making buttons, of course)
- Badge-making materials (lanyards,badge-holders,laminator,etc)

Things I Would Also Like To Get In the Next Few Months
- More memory for tesstrosa's computer (or possibly a total guts replacement)
- Flat-screen monitor to replace my dying CRT
- Second HD for my computer

Comments

[telophase.livejournal.com]

* I should point out that you can get inkjet printers that accept archival inks (mine does - HP 9650), but I'm not sure how archival laser ink is.

[nockergeek.livejournal.com]

Archival inks?

[telophase.livejournal.com]

Yah - resists fading for longer than normal inks. Mind you, I used the one that came with the printer for a bit, and the cartridge itself was too old and the ink was streaky, so I tossed it and haven't bothered to buy another one, just been using regular ink cartridges.

Epson puts out a few that use that ink, too, and I've seen them recommended more than the HP ones online (but the HP one is cheaper. :D). The Epson Stylus Photo R1800 (http://www.epson.com/cgi-bin/Store/consumer/consDetail.jsp?BV_UseBVCookie=yes&oid=53540919) is a large-format that's the equivalent of my HP (well, only supposedly better, so not much of an equivalent at all).

I know ursulav uses a large-format Epson for her prints, although I've forgotten the exact make and model.

I think my prints run about $1-2/each for me (counting ink, paper, and me screwing up and having to toss some prints - although I've found people will buy misprints for a dollar, so I make back some costs) to do - if I have a run where I'm screwing up, maybe closer to $2.50 each. That's not counting the worth of my time to sit there and print and to run to the store because I've misjudged the amount of ink remaining and have to get a new cartridge. So my 8.5x11" sell for $5-6, which isn't much profit for the amount of work I put into it, but the 11x17" sell for $10-12, so they make up for it overall.