>>6030125It's still a good exercice when you want to practice your skills on a given medium. Even if you're good with graphite/charcoal, that doesn't mean you'll automatically be efficient/proficient with say, oils or watercolors. I've found it to be an interesting playground, among others.
>>6030145>out of the range of any relevant intellectual property lawsIndeed
>I wonder if buying a large format printer would be more cost effectiveOn the long run maybe not: lithographies are permanent (IIRC, pigmented inks), and have furthermore some intrinsic value because of of the cost of production and generally limited prints. An old original Bargue lithography might bring in some cash.
But on the short run, given that you're likely to need to print paintings for master-copies too, it's likely to be. Assuming professional grade printers aren't as inefficient ink-wise as regular printer. I've bought a Canon (A4) a few years ago. Inks dries in a few weeks; can only print like 20 (don't remember the exact number, but it was ridiculously low) or so colored pages, a little more for b&w. Built to milk you.
I now go to a local print shop who sells a little less than 150 b&w A4 for 10€...
