[pure-silver] Re: Uneasy Question From Nervous Uncle
- From: Lloyd Erlick <lloyd@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2005 10:38:04 -0500
feb205 from Lloyd Erlick,
At 11:17 AM 2/1/2005 , Uncle Dick wrote:
>Dear Lloyd,
>
> Congratulations, you are the winner. You have discovered the correct
>answer to the question " What do I do with all this expensive equipment now
>the market for it has dropped out? ". You use it up and wear it out!
>
> Any guesses which will die first - a 10 year old Beseler enlarger or a
>brand new HP printer....
>
> Uncle Dick
Yes, I plan to use it until I'm the one that's worn out.
A friend gave (gave!) me a Durst 138s enlarger because he believed the
market did not merit a moment of his time attempting to get money. The
thing looks at least as old as I am (past the half-century mark...) and
will definitely outlast me and perhaps my heirs, if I have any, and if they
are so retro as to want to use it.
The printer? I've already gone through several of the damn things. Why
should that ink cost so much? I'd have to have a pretty good reason to want
to spend that kind of money to print an image with such expensive
materials! (Oh, great, it will accept legal size paper! So big?!! Make mine
illegal, then ...) Good old cheap silver-based photosensitive papers for
me, they are the affordable alternative. Anyway, I'm the printer, thank you
very much. How does that hunk of plastic get to be called a printer?
regards,
--le
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