Project Basho has just announced a Fall workshop I’ll be teaching, Fine Inkjet Printing. This intermediate/advanced workshop examines a high quality printing workflow. We look at some of the top third party paper options, explore softproofing techniques and delve into the practical applications of color management. If you’re in or around Philadelphia this workshop is [...]
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Philly Printing Workshop
August 3, 2009QuadTone RIP Workflow
July 21, 2009Roy Harrington’s QuadTone RIP (QTR) software is a remarkable collection of tools that allows for some of the highest quality black and white output available on Epson inkjet printers. If you’ve only used the Epson ABW driver, you owe it to yourself to try QTR. QTR is capable of both very simple operation, for those [...]
Printer Calibration and Profiling
April 10, 2009In the previous post of this instructional series we looked at calibrating and profiling the monitor for accurate display. Now it’s time to ensure consistent and predictable results from the printer. As with monitors, printers benefit from both calibration and profiling. The difference, however, is that unless you own a full-featured RIP, the calibration step, referred [...]
Why don’t my prints match my screen?
March 31, 2009This is the number one question I am asked by students and workshop attendees. It’s a source of endless frustration for those asking the question and further proof to those of us being asked the question, that color management for the masses is still not a reality. This is the first in a series of [...]
HP Z3100: Add custom profile targets
March 16, 2009A major selling point of the Z-series inkjet printers from HP is the ability for users to create their own printer profiles, even for third-party papers, right out of the box. With a spectrophotometer built into the printer, users can initiate the process of custom calibration and profiling right from their keyboard. The printer creates and measures [...]
Epson 3800 grayscale ICC profiles
March 9, 2009My biggest beef (among many) with Epson’s Advanced BW driver (ABW) is that it is decidedly NOT part of a color-managed workflow, at least not out of the box. If you own a spectrophotometer like the popular i1, you can use Roy Harrington’s QuadTone RIP (QTR) to create your own profiles specifically for ABW output. [...]
Atlanta Exhibition of Piezography Sepia Prints
February 25, 2009Carbon Sepia Pigment Prints On Exhibition at Emory University’s Carlos Museum The exhibition of Egyptian Archeological Photographs was organized and designed by Nancy Roberts and Bruce Raper under the direction of Peter Lacovara, Senior Curator of Ancient Egyptian art at the Carlos Museum. The photographer Harry Burton (1879-1940) was an accomplished archaeological photographer who began [...]
Leopard, CS4 and printer profiling
February 20, 2009Update: I’ve added supplementary steps (1a and 2a) for those who need to print grayscale targets. With the introduction of Leopard (OS 10.5) in late 2007, Apple made significant “enhancements” to the printing pipeline that, to this day are still wreaking havoc on color managed workflows. One particular problem, and there are a few, involves [...]
Shoppers Guide: Inkjet Paper
February 5, 2009The widespread adoption of inkjet technology has spawned a dizzying array of media options for printing. In this video I give you a general overview of the types of choices available, and some basic criteria to use when selecting a paper.
Digital Black and White
January 28, 2009If you’ve left the darkroom, but not your love of black and white photography, the good news is that tools and techniques to produce prints that rival the traditional analog processes are plentiful. The bad news is that relevant information for black and white photographers is usually scattered in bits and pieces, both in print and [...]
