I had a seasoned photojournalist who shot for the AP as my mentor.
3 years of personal one-on-one training.
He got me into newspaper and magazines, doing a documentary for the Army, producing professional presentations (the Army uses 2 of them now) sent me on assignments that I couldn't believe I was on. This guy was connected and he used his connections for me.
After all of that he began pushing me hard. Nothing allowed in editing pics except for cropping and toning.
Then he hooked me up with a mentor who approached photography from an entirely different approach. It was as different as night and day. For 2 years I learned studio and various editing programs, I loved most of it, and some of it drove me nuts. And he had me write a couple of photo classes to teach in the technical college of the university.
I have about 60 hours of undergraduate and graduate classes in photography. and now that I am retiring I am thinking about returning to school and getting a degree in photography.


How long does it take to learn photography? I don't know. Who defines the actual time in your life when you have learned it?

The 2200 come out in 2002 The r1900 in 2008 and was replaced with the r2000.

Another question is; when were the printers last use and do you have the printer knowledge to get one up and running? If they have been idle for sometime, a extreme nozzle cleaning will likely be needed.

That could mean, knowing how to safely inject cleaning fluid into the printer head, via the ink ports where the cartridges connect.

Back in April, it took two weeks to get a good nozzle check on a r1800. The owner said, the printer had been idle for six months.

OEM ink was always used.