How long do you sit on your gear that is not selling?

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Contact the Tamarind Print Institute in Abq, NM.
https://tamarind.unm.edu/
If anyone can help you, they can. They're one of the premier lithography places around. They have a program where artists from all over the world can stay in their guest house and work w/ their lithographers to make prints of the artist's ideas or images. Very, very few people actually do the whole thing, there's printers, and there's artists that make the work...... but it's a collaboration from start to finish.

Matthew, try the art galleries, they may have some leads on a small etching press, or know someone that knows someone. Or the local colleges. Again, not many do this, so there's not a lot of presses floating around. Buying new, they're pricey. Worth it though. You surely know this, but make sure you have a 4 star ventilation in place. Photographers think we deal w/ hazardous chemicals and materials, and we do, but painters and printers have been dying from some really seriously toxic substances for many centuries.

 

[Chan Tran]

Some will let it sit forever because they value the items and will not drop the price. For some the items don't have value to them and they are actually nuisance then they keep dropping the price and to the point paying someone to take them away.

 

[greg zinselmeier]

OH, I forgot to mention/update> I did sell everything in my print shop except for a few stones. NOT too bad! I am now able to concentrate full time on my photography/studio practice. I also did sell off the remaining woodworking large equipment as well, and as well as, the kilns. The weight on my shoulders is soooooo much lighter. I feel so much more free to work on my ideas photographically. The reality was I had too much on my plate and couldn't focus and move ideas forward, because of the "too much choice" and too many processes and too many disciplines to have to chooose from. Restricting my choice of execution in my studio practice has helped immeasurably; it has allowed to focused on ideas, and not process!!!!!

 

[greg zinselmeier]

oh, . . . .. I also forget to mention, that I have also narrowed down in my choice of film,developer, my format, and my execution of my prints. I have been really honing in on my skills and its relationship to the ideas I like to discuss with my work. I reaaly feel good strides have made. since making the decision, on the "Great Realignment"