I am posting the final lists earlier than usual in order to give everyone an earlier start on selecting images, making their prints and mailing them to me.

Why?? Because just this morning I remembered that Kathleen and I will be leaving on January 26th for a two week trip to Arizona and New Mexico.

Please ship your prints so they arrive in Alaska NO LATER than January 24th.? If they arrive after this date I will not be able to include your prints with this exchange.

The following photographers are signed up for the Black & White exchange:

1. Tom O'Connell
2. Gary Benson
3. Jayanand Govindaraj
4. Steve Mustoe
5. Westley Clavey
6. Nara Narasimhan
7. Rob Schwartz
8. Jeff Deam
9. Joshua Daniels
10. Rick Holmes
11. S. Prabhakaran
12. Oscar Avellaneda-Cruz
13. Mike King

The following photographers are signed up for the Color print exchange:

1. Tom O'Connell
2. Gary Benson
3. Jayanand Govindaraj
4. Steve Mustoe
5. Nara Narasimhan
6. Rob Schwartz
7. Jeff Deam
8. Josh Daniels
9. Rick Holmes
10. S. Prabhakaran
11. Oscar Avellaneda-Cruz
12. David Reesor
13. Mike King

Please ship your prints for repackaging to:

Gary Benson
9843 Little Diomede Circle
Eagle River, Alaska 99577
(907) 242-6538

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TO SUCCESSFULLY PARTICIPATE PLEASE READ ALL OF THE GUIDELINES BELOW

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1) Prints are to be on either Letter (8.5x11) or A4 (8.3"x11.7") size paper. Please sign the print (generally done on the front).?

2) On the 16th of the month you will be notified of how many participants there are for each exchange.? You are to print one print for each of the other participants and one for yourself.?

3) Prints should be enclosed in individual clear sleeves (for example Clear Bags B811SNF) along with a Tech Sheet. Include the date of the exchange, your name, print title and any information about the subject matter, printer, inkset, software, workflow etc on the Tech Sheet which may be of interest to other participants.? Optional: also include your own?critique?of your image.?

4) Make sure that whatever return box or mailing method you use can accommodate both Letter (8.5x11) and A4 (8.3"x11.7") sized prints.??The total number of prints submitted is likely be greater than for the prior monthly print exchanges, so for those participants in the USA a USPS Flat Rate Medium size box is probably the best choice, especially if you are participating in both the B&W and Color print exchanges.

?5) For example, mailing your prints (addressed to the print exchange coordinator) in a USPS Flat Rate envelope or medium size box with an enclosed prepaid USPS Click-n-Ship return LABEL for a Flat Rate envelope or medium size box (addressed to yourself)?should work?very well. ?See this message for additional details?and images of how others have packaged their prints.

6) If you have not included a return postage pre-paid label please send the print exchange coordinator funds for the cost of a USPS Flat Rate envelope or medium size box (whichever you prefer to use) attached to a sheet of paper which?clearly?shows your return address.?

7) Upload a file of the image you have printed into the?correct photo album.? It permits those that are not actively participating in the current exchange an opportunity to observe.? It also creates a historical record that is useful over the years.?

8) Comments on prints are welcome and encouraged, but are not required for participation in a print exchange.? Any topic or theme for a print exchange is entirely optional.

With best regards,

Gary Benson

one of the print exchange moderators

(907) 242-6538

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Here is the Groups.io link and to the Quad Tone RIP (QTR) website for anyone who might be interested.?

Quad Tone RIP was developed by Roy Harrington.

/g/QuadToneRIP



I think Wes Clavey was thinking about setting up a printer to use monochrome inks and QTR, but I don't know if he has done that yet.

I never developed (let alone mastered) the knowlege and skill required to create my own QTR profiles, so I was only able to use the generic profiles available for various types of papers when I made B&W prints with QTR.

Gary

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Hi Phil:?

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Yes indeed, welcome back, Phil

Hello Phil! ?I recognize your name from past print exchanges, but my memory is not so good anymore so I can’t recall when you last participated. ?Tom or Jayanand may have better memories. ?(Edit: ?I just searched our messages and with that help my memory is slowly being refreshed. ?I had forgotten that you joined the group in 2013 and volunteered to be the print coordinator/re-packager for 3 quarters in 2015.)

I don’t use QTR very often anymore but I still check in on the QuadtoneRIP group now and then. ?Like our group, they migrated from Yahoo Groups to Groups.io. ?I’m almost certain that QTR still only works with Epson printers. ?I did a search of their group messages and found that the latest versions of QTR do support the 17” Epson P900. ?A 17” wide size printer is one that many of us here use, primarily the Epson P800/P900 or Canon Pro-1000. ?It is great for producing the Letter/A4 size prints of our regular bi-monthly print exchanges and for the annual large print exchange in February (paper sizes larger than letter/A4 and up to a maximum of 13x19”) which is the largest size we can conveniently mail.

Alternatively, you could get one of the less expensive 13” wide printers like the Epson P700 or Canon Pro-300. ?The ink cartridges are smaller than those on the 17” wide printers, so if you calculate the ink costs in $/ml, you’ll find that the larger ink carts of the 17” printers are significantly lower than for the 13” printers. ?Of course, each ink cartridge costs more for the 17” printers.

Welcome back Phil!

Gary

Greetings everyone,
I am looking to get back into the print exchange but need new printer. Any recommendations for a single device that will support the large & small format. Preferred works with quad tone rip too…

Thanks,
Phil

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Thanks for participating last year Rick.? I know the large print exchange is more costly and can be a hassle re packaging and mailing the prints.? It certainly is on my end.? That said, I really enjoy making and seeing the larger prints.

We had an higher than usual participation rate last February.? I was lucky to have those Ilford portfolio cases to mail the prints back to the US participants.? Unfortunately, I don't have any more of those so I'll have to go with the alternate mailing method.? For most of us that means the flattened USPS flat rate boxes.

I've already selected two of my images for the large print exchange.? I made prints of them which I gave to my photo friends here in Anchorage yesterday evening when we met for our annual end of year photo gathering/dinner.

Gary

As I mentioned, I would like to periodically change the cover photos that will be displayed on the Group's home page . My thought for now is that I'll change these to correspond with the two month duration of each bi-monthly print exchange (so this one will be up from now until the first week of February).

I'm happy to change it monthly if people would like to see new photos more often.? I'd also be happy to have others provide input on which photos to display.? Only a group administrator (myself, Tom or Jayanand) can actually upload and change the cover photo.

Gary

Great to have you back for the holidays Mike! This brings us to a ?count of lucky 13, for both black & white and color exchanges.

All participants might want to consider this a warm-up lap for the large print exchange in February/March. Start thinking about which of your images will really benefit from being printed and shared on larger papers.

Gary

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Once again there are currently 12 people signed up for the B&W exchange and 12 for the Color exchange.?

There is still room for 3 more.? As we agreed a few months ago, the new limit will be 15 participants per exchange.
If you would like to participate in this bi-monthly print exchange (Letter/A4 size), please respond by email or post to the group.?

Sign-up will close on December 15th.? I will post the final lists on the 16th.

Since we know there will be at least 12 participants for each exchange, you can certainly get a head start on selecting and printing your images before the 16th.

Please ship your prints so they arrive in Alaska NO LATER than the last week of January.

The following photographers are currently signed up for the Black & White exchange:

1. Tom O'Connell
2. Gary Benson
3. Jayanand Govindaraj
4. Steve Mustoe
5. Westley Clavey
6. Nara Narasimhan
7. Rob Schwartz
8. Jeff Deam
9. Joshua Daniels
10. Rick Holmes
11. S. Prabhakaran
12. Oscar Avellaneda-Cruz

The following photographers are currently signed up for the Color print exchange:

1. Tom O'Connell
2. Gary Benson
3. Jayanand Govindaraj
4. Steve Mustoe
5. Nara Narasimhan
6. Rob Schwartz
7. Jeff Deam
8. Josh Daniels
9. Rick Holmes
10. S. Prabhakaran
11. Oscar Avellaneda-Cruz
12. David Reesor

Please ship your prints for repackaging to:

Gary Benson
9843 Little Diomede Circle
Eagle River, Alaska 99577
(907) 242-6538

?

TO SUCCESSFULLY PARTICIPATE PLEASE READ ALL OF THE GUIDELINES BELOW

===================================================================

1) Prints are to be on either Letter (8.5x11) or A4 (8.3"x11.7") size paper. Please sign the print (generally done on the front).?

2) On the 16th of the month you will be notified of how many participants there are for each exchange.? You are to print one print for each of the other participants and one for yourself.?

3) Prints should be enclosed in individual clear sleeves (for example Clear Bags B811SNF) along with a Tech Sheet. Include the date of the exchange, your name, print title and any information about the subject matter, printer, inkset, software, workflow etc on the Tech Sheet which may be of interest to other participants.? Optional: also include your own?critique?of your image.?

4) Make sure that whatever return box or mailing method you use can accommodate both Letter (8.5x11) and A4 (8.3"x11.7") sized prints.??The total number of prints submitted is likely be greater than for the prior monthly print exchanges, so for those participants in the USA a USPS Flat Rate Medium size box is probably the best choice, especially if you are participating in both the B&W and Color print exchanges.

?5) For example, mailing your prints (addressed to the print exchange coordinator) in a USPS Flat Rate envelope or medium size box with an enclosed prepaid USPS Click-n-Ship return LABEL for a Flat Rate envelope or medium size box (addressed to yourself)?should work?very well. ?See this message for additional details?and images of how others have packaged their prints.

6) If you have not included a return postage pre-paid label please send the print exchange coordinator funds for the cost of a USPS Flat Rate envelope or medium size box (whichever you prefer to use) attached to a sheet of paper which?clearly?shows your return address.?

7) Upload a file of the image you have printed into the?correct photo album.? It permits those that are not actively participating in the current exchange an opportunity to observe.? It also creates a historical record that is useful over the years.?

8) Comments on prints are welcome and encouraged, but are not required for participation in a print exchange.? Any topic or theme for a print exchange is entirely optional.

With best regards,

Gary Benson

one of the print exchange moderators

(907) 242-6538

bensonga@...

Hi folks,

I dropped off all of the mailers and boxes at the midtown Anchorage post office this afternoon.? I'm not sure if they will get scanned/processed into the USPS system this evening or Monday morning, but they should be on the way to you soon.? US participants should receive them in the next 3-5 days.? The package to India will take about 2 weeks.

This was another very good set of prints for both exchanges!

Thanks again to everyone who is participating!

Gary

Thanks Josh! ?I received Rick’s prints yesterday and I’ll be meeting Oscar on Friday to get his prints, so with any luck I’ll have them all before the weekend.

Gary

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Mine shipped out today.?

Thanks Rick!

Gary

I've recieved prints from Steve, Tom, Rob, Jeff, David, Westley, Jayanand, Nara and Prabhakara.?

If the prints from Rick, Josh and Oscar arrive here no later than Friday, Dec 1st I will get the full set of prints sorted, re-packaged and mailed back to all of you next weekend.

Gary