Adventurous Printing With Epson And GoPro

Well, you can't fault the logic of it. Buy an Epson inkjet printer and get a miniature adventure camera. The best of both worlds.

Go out and video yourself skateboarding over a cliff with a jet pack, wings, and a motorcycle attached - underwater - as you do...and when you are sitting at home safe and dry and comfortable...in your cast with the traction weights pulling your hip straight again, you can get the lady from Silver Chain to make some great A3+ prints of you.

Okay, that's more cynicism than Epson intended when they bundled the R3000 printer with a GoPro Silver edition action camera in a special offer, and you will probably do no worse that take pictures of the kids falling off the trampoline onto the concrete.

The printer is great - I have one and it hasn't failed in anything I ask it to do - gloss, lustre, or matte - the prints are what I expect to see and the thing is quite economical with ink. We use one to make shop advertising posters and it is as good as the commercially printed material the manufacturers send us. Plus we get to do it on the spot. Thoroughly recommended.

The GoPro cameras are the doyen of this sort of machine. Whether you are recording carnage on Russian roads or swimming carnivals back home, it produces sharp, spectacular footage of whatever passes in front of the wide-angle lens. There are any number of accessories to latch these to people, vehicles, and objects and you can work Wifi and remote operation in case you don't want to be attached to it when it hits the rock face...

Nurse! Time for my sponge bath!

Epson Wish To Pelt You With Money. Hold Still.

Big Epson printers work like small Epson printers - well. They are consistent winners for clean reproduction and accurate media handling. They are fast. They are economical with ink. They can work all day every day.

And now they can put money back into your pocket.

Epson have announced a factory rebate for purchasers of the Stylus Pro 7900 and Stylus Pro 9900 printers if they are ordered prior to October 31st, 2013. Do the deal now and you qualify for a factory rebate of:

1. $ 1000 on the Epson Stylus Pro 7900 printer - this is the 24" wide model.

2. $ 1500 on the Epson Stylus Pro 9900 printer - this is the 44" model.

Here is the chance for the professional printer or the company who needs the best in roll or flat work to get in on the ground floor  and get the cash for it. Don't hesitate.

Money Coming Back To You From Epson

New Epson cash back promotion for you today - If you need to print up to A2 on thin or thick stock - with the finest of inkjet ink - the Epson Stylus Pro 3880 model attracts a cashback payment from the Epson people of $ 250.

This promotion will run until the end of September 2013. You buy from us and claim your reward from Epson on-line.

If you don't quite need as large a size, but want all the benefits of the Epson ink set and their expertise in easy colour printing, may I suggest that you get an Epson Stylus Photo R3000 right now. This will print to A3+, do rolls and CD discs, and also open for thick stock. It will print through a wifi network if there is someone in your house young enough to know how to connect it, and from regular USB or ethernet if you are old enough to remember Nixon...

There is a cashback from Epson of $ 200 for purchase of a printer and if you choose to purchase a printer AND a set of replacement inks, you can increase that cashback to $ 400. But you have to get your skates on - this promotion finishes at the end of this current month.

My own experience with these printers has been very positive - as it has been with Epson papers, Epson scanners, etc. I use the R3000 regularly for the paper output from my Hot Rod Honey series and for wedding pictures. It really does do the business of translating what is on my computer screen to a print in hand with a minimum of fuss.

Hurray For the Free Bee!

Here are a couple of announcements to gladden the heart and fatten the wallet of Camera Electronic customers. The Free Bees have flown back to the shop courtesy of the EIZO and Epson people.

EIZO make monitors - some of the very best in the business - and from time to time change and improve their model line-up. But they are not all serious colour-accurate technological experts - they like to go play sometimes and they want t you to do so too. Sooooo,

The EIZO people will be offering a FREE GoPro Hero white camera outfit valued at $ 269 with all ColorEdge with CN orders. This will apply to models CG246, CG276, CG223W, CX240-CAL, CX270-CAL, and CS230-CAL.

This offer is on right now and will go to the end of financial year - the 31st of July 2013.

Now the Epson people make printers and scanners. I know - I own one of each - and I feel myself particularly qualified to announce the next Free Bee Actually it is a Cash Back Free Bee and that is all the sweeter.

The Epson Photo Stylus R 3000 printer is a wonderful A3+ inkjet printer. It will do rolls, disks, sheets, and slabs. It has useful-sized ink cartridges that are not world-shatteringly expensive and the quality of the printing straight out of it is superb. Getting a correct print out of it is the least fight of any printer I have used and to some extent makes a lot of the complexity that is peddled about printing irrelevant. that is a the wrong thing to say when we are supposed to be experts....but the pleasure of just dropping the paper in and getting the print out is wonderful.

Anyway, Epson want to sell more, and to do so have offered $ 200 cash back if you get one of these printers between now and the 15th of July 2013 - you send them proof of purchase before the 30th of July 2013 and they send you real government money that you won't get arrested for spending. If you elect to purchase  a set of additional inks for the printer at the time of initial purchase - these are the 157-series - you get back and additional $ 200 - making $ 400 all up.

Now if you have bigger ambitions and want a heavier printer that will go up to A2 while still doing rolls, think of the Epson R 4900. This will get you a cashback of $ 500 in between now and July 31 2013.

SO - buzz in and gather up the honey....errr... I mean money.

Uncle Dick

Starts First Time - Epson

The sad news is that my old printer carked it. I let a batch of out-of-date-ink sit unused in it for too long a time and the head clogged up. None of the easy solutions cured this, and the repair technician at the printer place found that the replacement of the head would have cost nearly as much as buying a new printer - decision easy.

I selected a slightly smaller printer than before - in the time I used the original I never really exploited the largest size of paper. I could quite easily use the next size down.

The good thing about the next size down is that it is cheaper - and does a little more in the bells and whistles line. It can print roll paper for panoramas and also has a tray that handles CD disks. As it has the sort of font feed that can cope with thick material, it seemed to be a good choice.

Epson Photo R3000 is the model. I takes the same sort of ink as the previous printer, though the cartridges are somewhat smaller. This means a higher per/ml ink cost but a faster throughput of cartridges and less chance of the ink staling in the system.

Paid my money - full price too* - took it home, opened the box, unpacked the goods, and read the instructions. That is the beauty of Epson - the instructions are printed as well as disked, and they assume that the new user is a boob - and write accordingly. Even the dimmest of us can do it and I did it...

Once the thing was hooked up, inked up, and disked up, I tried the simple option for connecting it - the enclosed USB cord. There are simple instructions for using it with a Wifi link but I thought that wire would be more reliable - plus I like the option of something that I can trip over in the dark.

The command pathway from my computer to the printer seemed to be similar to the previous printer so I called up and image, sized it, and asked for the same sort of colour handling as before. First file went perfectly and to my eye is precisely the same as the monitor screen. Four more images confirmed this fidelity. I could not be happier.

I also reflected that the paper was helping a lot - I selected Epson Premium Glossy in A4 size. The printer knows this paper and has the correct profile as part of its basic structure. I might change a few times to other well-known brands or surfaces, but for me the A4 Premium Glossy looks to be the best option. I don't do soft romantic matte shots...except when I do soft, out of focus shots that I miss the exposure on badly and am too ashamed the throw in the bin. Then I talk myself out of it.

So that's the report. Epson works. Works well. Works FIRST IMAGE through the printer. Can't ask for better than that.

* 'cause I get tired of people trying to skinflint the price of luxury items down to nothing. I want to do the job well and I expect to pay for the goods. If I wanted to do cheap printing I could make a stamp out of a potato and use a school watercolour set...