Red Bicycle 2, by Robert Manz - Digital Download - 5x7 note card

$5.00

For me, Florence has truly been a place of birth and rebirth. A number of big life transitions marked here. This is one of my favorite images for all those times and reasons. ~Robert

A note about printing: I’ve done darkroom and now digital printing since my college days. I know how to make a good print and I know what is my favorite print equipment. I know what are the good papers and the good inks.

A year ago I purchased a $200 Ecotank all in one printer by Epson (model 2800) - this is new territory for me, the other printers in my studio cost $2,000 and up.

I popped a sheet of my favorite coated card stock paper, 8.5x11, into the 2800 printer and out came an archival print of one of our calendar covers that is 99% of the quality I can print on the more expensive equipment.

The lesson I take away from this is “you can try this at home- and get a good print”. This means that my audience can make a print at home that I am happy to have shown as a piece of my work .

In principle any $200, or less, inkjet printer with color photo capability cab make a high quality print with this file using photo quality inkjet paper. All my experience is with matte paper, but if you prefer a gloss or satin finish this should do just fine as well

Instructions: print this file at 100% on 8.5×11 or 8×10 photo quality paper, cut it down neatly to 7×10, fold, and you have a fine art note card.

For me, Florence has truly been a place of birth and rebirth. A number of big life transitions marked here. This is one of my favorite images for all those times and reasons. ~Robert

A note about printing: I’ve done darkroom and now digital printing since my college days. I know how to make a good print and I know what is my favorite print equipment. I know what are the good papers and the good inks.

A year ago I purchased a $200 Ecotank all in one printer by Epson (model 2800) - this is new territory for me, the other printers in my studio cost $2,000 and up.

I popped a sheet of my favorite coated card stock paper, 8.5x11, into the 2800 printer and out came an archival print of one of our calendar covers that is 99% of the quality I can print on the more expensive equipment.

The lesson I take away from this is “you can try this at home- and get a good print”. This means that my audience can make a print at home that I am happy to have shown as a piece of my work .

In principle any $200, or less, inkjet printer with color photo capability cab make a high quality print with this file using photo quality inkjet paper. All my experience is with matte paper, but if you prefer a gloss or satin finish this should do just fine as well

Instructions: print this file at 100% on 8.5×11 or 8×10 photo quality paper, cut it down neatly to 7×10, fold, and you have a fine art note card.

The digital downloads are an experiment. I know more and more people have good printers at home. This download is available for personal use at the stated size only. It has been protected against enlargement or alteration, but really this is a question of personal trust, as I seek to make a connection with people through my art. Thanks for considering and honoring. ~Robert

Printing Tips: I usually print on matte photo paper for inkjet, but gloss or satin should work well also; I just don’t have any experience with them. In order to get an idea of what would work best at home I recently purchased for about $200 an Epson EcoTank all in one printer, the ET 2800. I put in a sheet of my favorite archival matte paper, cost about 30 cents, and produced a print that is about 99% of the quality of the print I could make on the same paper using the photo quality Epson printers I have in the studio that cost about ten times as much. I’m happy to have those printers, I can do a lot more and make much bigger prints with them, but I do want you to know that if you use photo quality paper, you can make a framable print up to 11”x14” size with this download. ~ Robert

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