Yesterday, I picked up my new photo printer. After much YouTube research, I decided to get the Canon imagePrograff Pro-310 photographic printer, a 13-inch professional printer. I had considered getting the Canon Pro-1100 photo printer, a 17-inch printer, but at 75lbs. a bit too big for me at this time. And too expensive; the ink tanks are huge and each one of the twelve needed costs $160 each.

Now I have to learn the ins and outs of photo printing, getting the same rendered photograph on the computer onto paper. Hopefully it won’t be too long of a process for me. I ordered some photo paper in different sizes for testing, and another set of inks as the Pro-310 has small ink tanks. Once I have it figured out, I hope to start making some limited prints; I know which one is going to be the first, but I have no idea how many to make in the first series.

In other news, I ordered a new backpack from a brand that I love, Shimoda. I bought a Shimoda Urban Explore 25-liter backpack. I loved Shimoda’s Action X25 V.2 pack when I had all of the Olympus gear last year. Now, I hope to utilize the Urban Explore with my Hasselblad and Profoto gear. I have a workshop on portrait lighting early in April, and needed more space than my Wandrd sling offers. I’ll try to do a quick review of each in the coming week or so.