@xin-li The price was including the posh expensive hahnemuhle paper I bought. I think it would be cheaper with other paper. The A3+ brilliant museum matte paper I got free is £50 for 25 sheets. I think it's hard to work out ink prices exactly but I was doing just monochrome prints for my portfolio recently using the black and got around 12-14 prints before the black ran out. It's £12 for a ink cartridge so I figured 80p-£1 for ink for each print. Posh matte paper (308 gsm) is £3.20 per sheet. The other matte paper (300 gsm) I have is £2 per sheet making it about £3 per print. The printer cleans itself when I turn it on, I've not experienced any clogging but I've only had it a few months - I too was feeling the pinch from paying loads for fine art prints.

The larger model Canon imagePROGRAF PRO-1000 I looked at is about £500 to fill with 12 pigment inks - the cartridges are much larger though. it prints up to A2.

Main thing is to not buy a dye printer as the prints will fade fairly quickly, especially if exposed to sunlight.

It's one of the best things I ever bought and loving seeing my digital work on paper. Brings it to life. I can also do collage stuff now. I make large prints on A3 tracing paper taped together from pencil drawings I do. Makes it easier to make a large painting or stencil work. It's just opened up a whole new area of art making that was missing from my art bag of tricks.

@xin-li I have a Canon Pro-10s (£450) - the Canon equivalent of the P600. The quality is amazing with 10 archival pigment inks costing £116. It prints up to A3+ and a A3+ costs around £4 per print. Although I did get around 200 free museum quality paper sheets with it (mix of A4, A3 and A3+). My favorite paper Hahnemuhle photo rag, I bought 25 A3+ sheets for £80.

I went with the Canon over the Epson because there's no ink wastage switching between the 2 different blacks - no cleaning required when switching media. Downside is there's no adapter for a putting on a roll of paper. But in my London flat I haven't got the room for doing roll prints anyway - the printer is hernia inducing huge! So I guess it depends if you want those panoramic prints or no ink wastage. I think the quality of prints is similar. Lush.

I think when I get a studio and have more space I'd get the Epson one @Lee-White recommended. What does it cost to fill the P800 up with ink?

@xin-li Yes the Spyder I have is the Spyder5Elite. It's easy to use, just plonk it on the screen and it'll run itself (can use on any monitor) just plugs in via USB. I upgraded the software. But I have also looked at upgrading my hardware to the X-Rite i1 Display PRO as I hear it's more accurate. It is quite expensive though (£180). Good investment if you do want colour accurate work printed.

I rent mine out on fatllama for £10 a day so worth a look if you have fatllama rentals in your area. Depending on what country you're in and try one out. I'm sure other companies rent them out too.

I mostly use the pantone book for mixing paints to match my digital drawings for when I paint them or do screen prints - it tells you what colours to mix together to get that colour. But you can tell a printer what colour you want it to match via the pantone code. And yes you can match the colour against the screen version as photoshop has the pantone swatches built in. Although you have to consider screens are back lit.

@xin-li I think you should be fine if they have given you a profile to match.

For my screens I use a Spyder screen calibrator and have day settings and night settings. It's well accurate for sRGB. But I do have my own printer to check and just match it to paper CMYK profiles. Because the type of paper it is printed on makes a difference. Also a good thing to get is the Pantone colour solid coated/uncoated swatch books - this helps to check colour by sight and in different light. You can always note the Pantone colour code you want it printed at. I put this in my layers so I know I'm picking a colour that has a real world matching colour.

@Kevin-Longueil I probably won't do the springing hedgehog as you've nailed the stilts scenario here. I have another idea brewing.

@Kevin-Longueil This looks great. I was considering a stilts scenario with a hedgehog - the springy kind! The one thing I would say is that chicken looks like he's about to squawk and give the game away. A chicken gag? I think if he didn't have a shotgun then the fox wouldn't be sneaking away from a rabbit. Farmer rabbits realistically would carry a shotgun.

@deborah-Haagenson Also you can save your jpeg to compression 8-9. That'll shrink your file size.

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@Whitney-Simms said in How do you guys utilize Dropbox?:

I just got an iPad Pro. I was wondering if I save the files from there to my drop box if I could then go straight to it on my computer without having to send it to the computer. Is that how it works? Or do you guys use the cloud?

Yes I do this and as soon as I save to dropbox on my iPad, it syncs with all devices so I can work on it immediately on my computer. All my dropbox files are saved locally as well as cloud. You can choose which folders in dropbox you want to sync to a local hard-drive. I have mine in RAID array which is saved to 2 drives simultaneously. Just in case a hard drive fails. But that's not just for dropbox, its my art/photo archive.

It's DROPBOX PREFERENCES > SYNC > SELECTIVE SYNC

@LauraA For a portable SSD, Sandisk extreme portable SSD 500gb is £90 and 1tb is £140. These are tough, tiny and fast. With a USB-C port cable plus USB-A adaptor. The iPad pro uses a USB-C port so this little chap plugs right in.

@LauraA Also mine is the cellular one but have never used it, as I tether it to my iPhone's personal wifi hotspot. So that for me, was a waste of money.