Hi John,
Believe it or not it doesn't take that much wherewithal. I've been collecting this stuff for a couple decades.
There's a lot of distortion in these pictures because I used a 16 mm lens. In the first picture, the huge-looking wooden surface in front is a matboard case a friend, who was a marvelous woodworker made for me years ago. You can see its actual dimensions in the second picture, and you can see the hinges that'll let the top flip up. Those two pictures give you a rough idea of dimensions. The matboard case holds full 32" x 40" sheets.
The table the mat cutter is on is a simple four-legged kitchen table I found in a second hand store. On top of that is half a discarded hollow-core door. On top of that is half a sheet of 3/4" plywood to give me a really flat surface. The mat cutter itself is a Logan 650. If I were doing production work I'd want something better than that, but for what I do it's fine. It was top of their line when I bought it many years ago.
The guy who made the matboard case also made the table on the left in the first picture. He designed it to hold 16" x 20" framed prints in the slots under the top. Don't know what I'd do without it. But it can be reproduced without breaking the bank.
The tables in the background are simple folding tables I bought at an office supply store years and years ago. They happen to be exactly the right height for the keyboard and monitors and the two printers. The smaller printer, that'll print papers double-sided is a holdover from my business stuff when I was doing software engineering. The little desk off to the right is an el-cheapo from Office Depot. It does the job.
The most expensive things in the picture are the big old Epson 3880 back there on the table, and the dry mounting press that Bob correctly identified as a Bienfang/SEAL 220 Commercial. The stuff in it is release paper.
There are four top-of-the line Nikon flashes in that bag on the floor just under the Epson printer, plus a bunch of other stuff I use when I'm doing formal work, and there are some lightstands back in the corner, plus a couple tripods out of sight in the same corner, but unless you're doing that kind of work it's not stuff you need.
And that's it unless you want to add in the chair and window blinds. It's not a huge layout, though it ain't totally cheap either. But it all works like a champ.
