Early evening, a truck rattles up my street. I have been waiting. A man wearing a hat and dark glasses whispered, "are you Sam?", I nod, he says "lets get this over with, where do you want it?"

I nod towards the open garage door and ask him if he has everything he needs to get the merchandise in there. With a condescending smirch he gets to work. He has done this many times before.

I will keep you all posted as this moves forward.

Sam

Originally Posted by kdog

ooooh, intrique!!!! love it Sam - give us more

but the jig is up, we can see the canon logo; now we know you bought a new lens!!!

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Wow. That must be the new 4-800 F1.4 lens I've heard rumors about.

Chuck Westfall is in the box?

Opening a print business. SCC (Sam's Custom Color) ?

I bought 6 new printers this week.
All the boxes combined didn't add up to the size of that one.

I also bought over 50 boxes of paper, 8L of ink, 2 new desktop computers, 4 bulk ink tanks, another speedlight, a 10-22, a 17-40, a 24-105, a colormunki and a 650D.
The pile of rubbish and cardboard from all that I now have to get rid of WOULD be about right for that box.
They sure tend to over package stuff these days.

I have been thinking of getting a small wide format printer mainly for doing signs and banners as I seem to be spending a heap on those of late.
Holding off until I can find a supplier of bulk ink. The OEM stuff is ridiculous.

Sam, you bought a master case (96) of 1Dx's or 5DIII's?

Update,

I gota tell ya I'm not all that happy with Canon. I was told everything I needed was in the box. After carefully following the instructions and assembling the stand. The instructions said I needed 6 people to place the main portion on the stand.

Would you believe they didn't even include one person?

Now here I sit trying to figure out how to entice 6 unsuspecting people over to help.

Sam

I would send it back .

Originally Posted by Glort I bought 6 new printers this week. All the boxes combined didn't add up to the size of that one. I also bought over 50 boxes of paper, 8L of ink, 2 new desktop computers, 4 bulk ink tanks, another speedlight, a 10-22, a 17-40, a 24-105, a colormunki and a 650D. The pile of rubbish and cardboard from all that I now have to get rid of WOULD be about right for that box. They sure tend to over package stuff these days. I have been thinking of getting a small wide format printer mainly for doing signs and banners as I seem to be spending a heap on those of late. Holding off until I can find a supplier of bulk ink. The OEM stuff is ridiculous.

Glort,

There are quite a few after market ink suppliers for the large format printers but I wouldn't touch them when dealing with fine art prints. however for signage and posters I wouldn't object to giving them a try.

Also note there are large format printers specifically made for sign shops to print all kinds of banners including on vinyl with UV resistant inks. They generally have only 4 to 6 colors and are substantially less expensive to operate, then say a large format photo printer with 12 inks.

Sam

Originally Posted by Sam ...Now here I sit trying to figure out how to entice 6 unsuspecting people over to help.

beer!

beer & pizza!!!

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A simple yet elegant solution.

Now I can't continue to blame others for getting the printer set up and going.

Sam

wow, that sure is purrrrrty

Originally Posted by Sam A simple yet elegant solution. Now I can't continue to blame others for getting the printer set up and going. Sam

HOKEY SMOKES!! IT'S A PIANO!!!

Wow... I am so terribly jealous!! Congrats!! That is one awesome printer!

I love the Sam-mobiles on the wall. Nice prize on the stand too! ;)

OK, ink installed, ran print test, all looks good.

Tomorrow I will download ICC profiles and start testing real images and paper.

PS: this is only the small 36 " roll.

Sam

Can us newly subscribed Power users use you as our print lab?!

Dang. My R2880 is feeling very inadequate now....
Congrats on the new printer!
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