Looking forward to reading this Nigel. I've had a couple of Pentax flash guns just languishing in a box. Maybe I'll be able to get some benefit from them now

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Looks a great location for fun and photography, nice set

What I'm looking for is a printer which is good for printing mono photos, they all seem to get reasonable reviews for colour photos. I have done ok with the canon ix6550, was 2nd overall (mono) last year and 1st overall (mono) the season before. Of course I could send them off for printing but postage seems quite severe.

I had a Samsung laser printer which was great for letters and the like but not so good for graphics. Unfortunately it was taken to the local recycling depot as the toner was going to be quite a few £'s more than the printer. To me that seemed crazy. I could buy a printer with enough toner for about 1500 pages, quite a lot for an odd letter now and again

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Thanks for the feedback. I think I will give ProAm a try although the postage does seem a little high.

Looks like my printer has had enough regarding printing Mono images, I'm getting a horrible magenta to bluish cast in the "blacks" ie grey clouds to dark shadows etc. I'm looking for suggestions for a replacement for my Canon ix 6550 at a reasonale price so any input will be appreciated. Also recomendations for sending prints off for printing would be helpful and looking at the price of "top of the range" printers may be a cheaper option. I should add i'm still getting satisfactory "Colour" prints from the ix6550. Thanks

I like it the colour pop works well for this I think

Thanks Phil, it's one to play about with, in the original the sail is a deep orange I'll proably try different crops and perhaps a "texture" in the sky.