On 1/24/2016 2:00 PM, Richard Lovison wrote:
Hi everyone.
Maybe some of you will remember me... maybe not. I was a member of
this list many years ago, or at least it seems that long. I've lurked
from time to time just to see what some of you have been up to.
Wow, sure do! I have occasionally wondered what happened with you, most
recently just a few days ago.
Welcome back, and I hope you can hang around and maybe even show us some
newer work. :-)
I haven't seriously used my Olympus equipment in about two years.
While you've been gone, I've come back from the dark side to Oly again,
with µ4/3 gear.
My wife and I both lost our employment at the same time a couple of
years back and for me, I lost an income that made my photography hobby
possible. So my creative side was put on the back burner.
Recently I stumbled upon a discarded Epson 3880 printer at the
transfer station that I reluctantly took home. It was in excellent
shape cosmetically with all accessories but I thought what person
would throw away a working 3880 especially with ink carts installed. I
had quite a shock when I discovered the ink carts were still in it,
three of the nine full and the remaining half full or a little less. A
quick nozzle check indicated no clogging. I still couldn't believe it
but an attempt at printing a print produced beautiful results. And
wow, can this thing produce a beautiful B&W print. So I took this
experience as an act of the Universe to get me back into photography.
Wow - again.
One more small problem remained. I had an Epson R1900 and I knew I
couldn't afford to maintain both printers as the ink cost would kill
me. So I attempted to give it away to a friend for the cost of one
complete set of ink carts that I had. Wasn't interested. So I tried to
sell it locally, first for $300 and then for $150. No go. So I figured
what the heck, I'll put it on eBay with a starting bid of $200. The
darn thing sold for $827!!! That's almost twice what I paid for it 6
years ago. What I later discovered was that the printer head from the
R1800, 1900 and 2000 are in demand by Asian t-shirt printing
companies. Whatever floats your boat I guess.
And maybe Wow again. I've got an R1800 sitting here that I haven't used
for months. May be time to pack it up and sell it.
Reunion Moose