Photographer Eddie Tapp Explains How to Print Like a Pro at Free Capture-to-Print Events

Digital-imaging expert and Canon Explorer of Light Eddie Tapp will be the featured speaker at the free Learn from a Pro/Print Like a Pro open houses that Canon and LexJet are hosting on July 26 in Irving TX and on July 28 in Irvine, CA. Photographers of all backgrounds and skill levels can benefit from Eddie’s easy-to-understand explanations of color balance and exposure/tone controls, color management, image enhancement techniques, and how to select the correct print settings.

Along with hands-on demonstrations of the newest printers from Canon, Eddie will provide practical advice for streamlining your capture-to-print workflow and optimizing image quality with the least amount of time and effort. You will see firsthand some of the time-saving advantages of using Canon’s Print Plug-In for Adobe® Photoshop® and the Digital Photo Professional export-to-print module.

Bring one of your own files to the Open House and Eddie will select a few attendees’ images for his “Pimp- My-File” demonstration, in which he shows how easy it can be to enhance images and produce professional-quality prints.

There will also be a print contest for all Open House attendees. Upload one JPG image to our FTP site by July 22nd to get your image printed on LexJet’s Sunset Photo Metallic paper. The image will be printed on one of Canon’s new printers.

The Canon experts will walk you through all of the features of Canon’s new iPF8300, iPF6350, and iPF6300 models and show how your prints can benefit from the wide color gamut produced by Canon’s all-new 12-color LUCIA EX pigment inks. LexJet account specialists will tell you more about what LexJet has to offer and how you can select LexJet’s award-winning Sunset photo and art papers and specialty media directly from the printer driver of the iPF8300, iPF6350, and iPF6300.

At hands-on printing stations. you can get one-to-one demonstrations of all of the workflow tools available for use with Canon’s iPF 8300, 6350, and 6300 printers. In addition to learning more about the Print Plug-In for Adobe Photoshop, you can see how to use PosterArtist software for fast and easy layout of posters and banners, the Accounting Manager utility to track how much ink and media is used for each job, and Canon’s Print Plug-In for Microsoft® Office, which allows users of all skill levels to print posters and banners from Microsoft PowerPoint, Excel, and Word.

Each Open House starts with a continental breakfast at 9 am and concludes at 3 pm with the presentation of a Canon PowerShot S90 point-and-shoot camera to the winner of a print contest held exclusively for Open House attendees.

Special “fun” PRINT contest:

Canon & LexJet is conducting a “fun” print contest exclusively for Open House attendees. Upload an image (one per attendee) to the FTP site below and Canon will print it out on LexJet Sunset Metallic Photo Paper. Everyone present will have one vote for the winning image. A Canon PowerShot S90 point-and-shoot camera will go to the winner.

• FTP Site: transfer.lexjet.com (transfer up to 50 MB files via web browser. Over 50 MB please use any FTP client)
• Username: openhouse@lexjet.com
• Password: Print$Photo1 (case sensitive)

How to Register for Learn from a Pro/Print Like a Pro.

There is no cost to attend, but you must register in advance. Breakfast, lunch and refreshments will be served and all attendees will receive valuable discounts, freebies, and a $50 LexJet gift certificate.

To register, call LexJet at 800-453-9538. Ask about the ftp site to upload images on for the special print contest.