/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>>2057701
Since I'm pretty new to it, I don't see myself doing that anytime soon. I read up on some people trying to do CISS but they fucked up and ruined their printer. Ink refill syringes seem less risky, but I haven't tried those yet either.

I was also gonna go with a Canon PIXMA pro 100. I don't know why exactly, but I ended up thinking the Epson R2000 was better. I think it came down to dye based ink (Canon) vs pigment (Epson) printers. Pigment based ink seemed to fit my needs better, as it's supposed to be higher quality and work better with matte-finished fine art papers.

Good printers - turns out - are pretty expensive. The Epson R2000 was $700, but buying from the Epson store online you get an absolutely massive rebate of $250, or at least I did. Helped thwart the costs a bit. Good paper costs a bit too. Overall, a full paged 13x19" print costs maybe $3.00 to print for ink+paper.

An ink refill from the Epson store is about $20 per color. You can get a good amount of prints out of that, and only refill the colors that are low.

I ended up going with a 88lb. Polar White paper from Red River Papers. It's crazy thick and super sturdy, which is what I was looking for.

I also wish there was a good print thread here. I think a lot of printing discussion mostly between photographers, since digital illustrators don't think much about actually printing their work. It's really, really nice though. Being able to have a professional quality print whenever you want is great. Hopefully I can mitigate the costs of printing soon by selling some prints, but right now I'm still playing around with it.