Digital Prints

Computers, Art, and Printmaking: A Brief History (continued)
1985
New York master printer Harry Bowers
claims to make first digital color photo
print.
Jon Cone opens Cone Editions Press for
computer-assisted printmaking.
1987
The IRIS Graphics 3024 inkjet printer
is launched for the pre-press proofing
industry.
1989
David Coons outputs first IRIS fine-art
print (of singer Joni Mitchell) for
Graham Nash.
1990
Adobe Systems releases image editing software
Photoshop 1.0, developed by John
Knoll and Thomas Knoll.
First all-digitally printed, photographic
fine-art show (Graham Nash) at the Simon
Lowinsky gallery, New York.
Sally Larsen’s Tunnels Point Transformer is
the first digital fine-art print included into
the permanent collection of The
Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York).
1991
Nash Editions opens for business.
Jack Duganne (while at Nash Editions)
first uses the term “giclée.”
Maryann and John Doe start Harvest
Productions.
1994
Epson introduces the Stylus Color—the
first, desktop, photorealistic inkjet printer.
Durst first shows its Lambda digital laser
imager, making it possible to output digital
files directly to a color photographic development
process.
1997
International Association of Fine Art
Digital Printmakers (IAFADP) forms.
Digital Atelier: A Printmaking Studio
for the 21st Century demonstration
at the National Museum of American
Art of the Smithsonian Institution,
Washington, D.C.
1998
Jon Cone debuts DigitalPlatinum for IRIS
monochromatic system.
MacDermid ColorSpan announces its
Giclée PrintMakerFA, the first wideformat
digital printer created specifically
for fine-art market.
Roland DGA releases its Hi-Fi JET wideformat,
pigmented 6-color printer.
2000
Jon Cone releases the PiezographyBW system
for multi-monochromatic printing.
Epson launches the Stylus Photo 2000P,
the first desktop inkjet printer to use pigmented
inks.
2001
Opening of the Beecher Center at The
Butler Institute of American Art (Ohio),
the first art museum in the United States
dedicated to digital art.
010101: Art in Technological Times exhibition
at the San Francisco Museum of
Modern Art.
BitStreams exhibition at the Whitney
Museum of American Art, New York.
Digital: Printmaking Now exhibition at the
Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York.
Giclée Printers Association (GPA) forms.
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2002
Lexmark introduces first 4800-dpi desktop
inkjet printer (Z65).
Epson unveils first 7-color, pigment-ink
desktop inkjet printer (Stylus Photo
2100/2200).
Cone Editions introduces ConeTech
PiezoTone quad black inkjet inks.
Epson unveils first 2-picoliter ink droplet
(Stylus Photo 960).
HP introduces first switchable 4- to 6-ink
desktop inkjet printer (Deskjet 5550).
2003
HP introduces first 8-color desktop inkjet
printer with 3 blacks (Photosmart 7960).
Cone Editions launches PiezographyBW
ICC system for monochromatic inkjet
printing.
Digital Printmakers Guild forms.
Professional Digital Imaging Association
(DPIA) forms.
2004
Epson releases first 1.5-picoliter ink
droplets and first desktop inkjet printer
with Red and Blue plus Hi-Gloss inks and
Gloss Optimizer (Stylus Photo R800).
Canon launches first desktop inkjet printer
with 8 ink tanks including Red and Green
(i9900 Photo Printer).
(Sources: John Bilotta, Steve Boulter; Canon
USA, Jon Cone; David Coons; Andrew Darlow;
Digital Atelier; Jack Duganne; Durst U.S.,
Epson America, David Hamre; Mac Holbert,
Hewlett-Packard Company, Martin Juergens,
Preservation of Ink Jet Hardcopies, 1999;
Marilyn Kushner, Digital: Printmaking Now,
Brooklyn Museum of Art, 2001; Graham Nash;
The New York Times; Mike Pelletier; Roland
DGA, John Shaw/DPIA, Barbara Vogt Stability
Issues and Test Methods for Ink Jet Materials,
2001; Charles Wehrenberg; Henry Wilhelm)