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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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48 Mastering Digital Printing Since
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52 Mastering Digital Printing Table
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66 Mastering Digital Printing dry,
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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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Printer Management Software Today
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Only a few desktop inkjets come wit
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Media: The second important element
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consumable costs, depending on whic
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Epson: Epson is a dominant force in
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8 Making a Great Inkjet Print I can
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Platforms, Operating Systems, and C
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Chapter 8 ■ Making a Great Inkjet
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Digital Graphics Tablets Once artis
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2. That you have scanned in, captur
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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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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