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226 Mastering <strong>Digital</strong> Printing Table 7.2 Sample Third-Party PIGMENT Color Ink Brands Ink Supplier Brand Acceptable Works Well with Profiles Comes In Printers These Papers Provided? American Symphonic Epson 2200, various no bulk bottles Imaging Corp. Me2 7600, 9600 www.inkjetcolorsystems.com Symphonic: Epson 7600, various no bulk bottles Me2 Ultra 9600 Symphonic various Epson various no, requires RIP bulk bottles Ultra IV Lyson Cave Paint/ Epson various yes carts & bulk PhotoChrome UltraChrome bottles www.lyson.com M & M Studios Indelible Fine select Epsons fine art, no carts & bulk Art Inks canvas only bottles www.indelibleinks.com www.chameleoninkjetinks.com Chameleon select Epsons various no carts & bulk bottles MediaStreet Generations various Epson (RC) photo paper no carts & bulk G-Chrome G6 bottles www.inksupply.com Generations various (RC) photo paper no carts & bulk ProPhoto G5 bottles Generations various various no carts & bulk Enhanced G4 bottles Generations various various no carts & bulk Standard G3 bottles Generations various various no carts & bulk Elite (Outdoor) bottles MIS Glossy select desktop matte or glossy yes carts & bulk Pigments (GP) Epsons bottles www.inksupply.com 7600 Archival UltraChrome matte or glossy yes carts & bulk Epsons bottles Perpetual all Epsons various, not glossy yes bulk bottles Archival Original all Epsons various, not glossy yes bulk bottles Archival Pantone ColorVantage select Epsons various yes carts www.pantone.com
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MASTERING Digital Printing Second E
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All trademarks are the property of
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Foreword In early 1989, I was facin
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About the Author Harald Johnson has
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2 3 4 Understanding Digital Printin
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7 8 8. What About Printer Software,
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PART III : BEYOND THE BASICS 10 11
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Whom This Book Is For Written for p
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1 Navigating the Digital Landscape
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manager, would always hit the local
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Wehrenberg was already familiar wit
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Chapter 1 ■ Navigating the Digita
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Computers, Art, and Printmaking: A
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element, the basic unit of image in
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Photographic Prints Photographers h
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Liquid emulsions, image transfers,
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Printing Cousins: Offset and Digita
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Larger Sizes Size is not much of an
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Some of the photographers who are e
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New Mexico artist Ursula Freer has
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Schools are also promoting digital
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Disadvantages of Self-Printing ■
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Print Council of America’s defini
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One problem, of course, is that whe
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3 Creating and Processing the Image
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(Most modern scanners are 12-bit sc
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the bed of the scanner. They don’
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want to scale the image’s printed
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Testing Scanner Resolutions for Pri
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Sending Out for Scans Chapter 3 ■
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did when viewing the film on the li
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Several manufacturers such as Micro
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“The Creo EverSmart scanner has b
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people, and now that we’re at the
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and decompressed file at 300 ppi wo
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BetterLight Scan Backs One way to g
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As with other painting programs, St
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Image Editing Once you have the raw
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From a high-quality, digital printi
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Qimage Qimage fills it own unique c
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image in Chapter 8. However, this i
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with all the layers and adjustments
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JPEG2000 supposedly has the highest
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Canto Cumulus differs from Extensis
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5 Determining Print Permanence Alth
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Matz says, “Everything will chang
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Temperature Any student of chemistr
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The Dreaded Orange Shift Acidity As
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this: real-world testing under extr
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some infamous tests done with inkje
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What Are Endpoints, and Why Are The
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■ Waterfastness (for waterfastnes
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as its chairperson and Henry Wilhel
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Who’s Doing the Testing? There ar
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weathering tests as well as natural
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(Black-and-white prints made with t
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RH; depending on the specific type
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Others who do their own testing inc
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3. Set up test conditions and appar
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Maximize Print Permanence Depending
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Knowing what we now know about the
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6 Selecting an Inkjet Printer Inkje
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Want top-end photographic output wi
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the Epson Stylus Photo 2200, the ma
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3. What’s the Print Quality? In a
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4. What Different Inks and Media Ca
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hit the market.) Another important
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For wide-format, most people prefer
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6. Speed: How Long Does It Take to
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it, you can also take advantage of
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Table 6.3 Noise Levels of Selected
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9 Finishing and Displaying Your Pri
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Gas Ghosting In 2003, photographers
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Signing and Numbering If you’re p
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Coating Prints The decision of whet
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Other reasons to coat prints includ
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Table 9.1 Sample Liquid/Spray Coati
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into the tray and then pass your pr
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Mounting and Framing Prints Mountin
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Mats: If loose or hanging edges are
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Another problem for photographers i
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specific place (Paris, Hong Kong, M
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Storing and Shipping Prints After p
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the print had turned a bright yello
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Display Permanence We covered print
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The print finishing points made abo
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10 Using a Print Service There are
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A seasoned printing professional ha
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Size and Practicality If you need l
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Experience? How long have they been
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providing a digital file. If it’s
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Basic Print Cost: Digital printmake
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As you can imagine, this is a very
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Disagreeing with me on this is digi
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“To keep the cost per print to a
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Step 7: Shipping and Storing The jo
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Johnson explains that “while the
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D-Lab, LightJet, Lambda, and Chromi
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Pictage offers a similar service fo
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Appendix
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Courtesy of Bogdanoff Gallery/www.b
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Blackwell, Benjamin, 97 Blue Wool L
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Creo EverSmart scanner, 91 Creo iQs
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dye sublimation printers, 43, 58-59
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Gottsegen, Mark, 161, 174, 287 Gova
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OEM, 218-227 pigment-based inks, 18
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dumb (non-calibrator), 130 gamma, 1
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ppi-to-lpi ratio, 41 PPPI (pixels p
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prints, 14. See also digital prints
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Staples Fine Art, 33, 322 Stein, Ba
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