Re: Re: digital giclee

At 07:36 AM 12/4/00 -0500, Guy wrote:
>The difficulty for photographers shooting and printing color - whether
>pinhole or, God forbid, glass photography - is the lack of fine art
>emulsions. Plastic is all you have to print on and there are many times
>where I was sorry that I did not shoot in B&W so that I could print on
>nice fiber-based paper. This led me to experiment with my printer on
>fine art paper. But the lack of archival properties of the inks, until
>recently, was quite disappointing.

Guy - regarding "I was sorry that I did not shoot in B&W", one advantage of
digital printing is that you have the option of printing a color image as
b&w. Lately I have been shooting color transparency film, scanning, and
then converting the image to b&w using Photoshop. Color transparency film
has great latitude and works great for b&w digital prints.

>Even then, the current cost of giclee and other archival digital
>printing processes is prohibitive for most people. Think that you have
>to spend several prints (ink + paper) before you get the right color
>match for your print. This can make the final print very expensive and,
>unless you have generous donators or rich clients, it becomes really
>prohibitive.

Generally speaking, you get the right color match when setting up and
"calibrating" your monitor and printer, not with each image you print. But
in practice, I tend to make several "test" prints using cheaper paper until
I have what I want, then print on higher quality paper (same as I've always
done in a darkroom).

- Gregg
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Received on Mon Dec 4 07:58:55 2000