Posted in Photo Printing on Oct 17th, 2009 No Comments »
Luminous Landscape review of the Epson Stylus Pro 3880.
This will probably be my next printer. It won’t replace my Canon Pixma Pro 9000 Mark II but will be an addition to it for making larger prints with pigment inks. I’m not in a big rush but I have little doubt this printer is in my [...]
Posted in Events, Photo Printing, Photographers, Studio Photography on Sep 26th, 2009 2 Comments »
The Getty Center has an incredible show up: Irving Penn: Small Trades.
This is a large collection of portraits of window washers, plumbers, bakers, waiters and more, shot in the early 1950s in New York, London, and Paris.
Penn is both one of the greatest portrait photographers and one of the greatest photographic printers and these images [...]
Posted in Ideas, Landscape, Photo Printing, Places on Sep 26th, 2009 No Comments »
How to Publish a Magazine in a Day and a Half
Derek Powazek takes us step by step through having an idea, collecting content, designing a magazine and publishing and distributing it.
Posted in Art and Design, Joy Brown Sculpture, Photo Printing on Aug 25th, 2009 No Comments »
Warren, Connecticut. I printed a thousand (1000) post cards for my friend Joy Brown to announce the opening of one of her shows a few years ago.
Printed on Red River Polar Matte card stock on a Canon Pixma Pro 9000 printer.
I filled my office, our bedroom and other rooms with flat surfaces with these cards [...]
Posted in Opinion, Photo Printing, Photo Resources on Jul 5th, 2009 No Comments »
Adorama, Blurb & Lulu – Book Printing Review
A well written review by Raoul Gatepin including video of three web based photo book services. His conclusion is they all have enough weaknesses so that none is the overall winner.
[via Lens Culture]
Posted in Photo Printing, Tools, Video on Apr 10th, 2009 4 Comments »
These days it’s becoming popular to do photographic printing on canvas and mount the canvas (stretch it) like a painting. This is a demo of a kit which makes this process near painless. I wish the sound was better but it’s worth putting up with as the demo is first rate.
[via Dale Allyn]
Posted in Ideas, Photo Printing, Social Software on Mar 30th, 2009 No Comments »
Do-It-Yourself Magazines, Cheaply Slick
Use any page layout software, mark up a multi-page magazine, save it to PDF, upload to MagCloud and they’ll print a full color magazine for you at .20 per page.
Making a Magazine with MagCloud
To me, the great thing about this service isn’t this part of the process, although it’s pretty darned good, [...]
Posted in Photo Printing on Mar 5th, 2009 1 Comment »
Canon has released upgrades to it’s two 13×19″ photo printers, the Pixma Pro9000 upgraded to the Mark II and the Pixma Pro9500 upgraded to the Mark II. They’re still selling the older versions as well and there will no doubt be reviews online soon. Read more here: Canon Printers.
Posted in Photo Printing on Jan 8th, 2009 No Comments »
Consumer Guide to Modern Photo Papers
This pdf is worth reading if you print at home. Most important is the table on page 6 which shows the primary use, advantages and disadvantages of modern photo papers.
[via Red River Paper Blog]
Posted in People, Photo Printing, Tech Stuff, Video on Nov 9th, 2008 No Comments »
Michael Reichmann Interviews Henry Wilhelm
In the late Summer of 2008 I interviewed Henry Wilhelm, the world’s preeminent authority on print permanence and the founder of Wilhelm Imaging Research. This interview was conducted on behalf of Epson, to be used as part of their 2008/2009 Epson Print Academy. The clip used by Epson was edited down [...]
Posted in Opinion, Photo Gear, Photo Printing, Photo Resources on Jun 28th, 2008 No Comments »
Save Polaroid
On February 8, 2008, Polaroid Corporation announced that it will discontinue production of all instant film. This site will document the aftermath of this announcement and will serve as a home-base for the effort to convince another company to begin producing the cherished technology that Polaroid has so carelessly abandoned.
This site is not about [...]
Posted in Art and Design, Photo Printing, Photo Resources on Apr 9th, 2008 1 Comment »
A set of excellent notes on making photo books with Blurb: Want to Make a Blurb Book?.
Posted in Photo Gear, Photo Printing on Feb 11th, 2008 4 Comments »
Polaroid Abandons Instant Photography
Gary, better stock up on film, this is the end of Polaroid dye transfers.
[via kottke.org]
Posted in Photo Printing, Photo Resources on Jan 13th, 2008 2 Comments »
Canon has released a pdf document: Canon Digital Color Management Guidebook (clicking this link will open a large pdf document in a new window).
Looks quite useful for users of all brands of camera and printer but especially useful to Canon DSLR users and/or users of Canon inkjet printers.
Posted in Photo Printing on Jan 7th, 2008 No Comments »
Rick LePage at Macworld looks at Epsons new photo printer.
Epson today announced the Stylus Photo R1900, a $550, B-size (13″ by 19″) desktop printer with pigment-based inks, advanced paper-handling capabilities and productivity features aimed at serious amateurs and professional photographers.
Posted in Macintosh, Photo Editing Software, Photo Printing on Dec 17th, 2007 2 Comments »
Printing on Leopard with Lightroom 1.3.1
Update from Adobe on printing from Lightroom essentially telling everyone to check to see if your printer drivers are Leopard compatible.
For what it’s worth, I found that the current driver for my Canon Pixma Pro 9000 is both Tiger and Leopard compatible and should work fine with Lightroom when I [...]
Posted in Ideas, Photo Printing on Oct 9th, 2007 No Comments »
Film Drop-Off Sites Fade Against Digital Cameras
Fresh from a family vacation in California, Rick Wallerstein went to the Stop & Shop supermarket in Berkeley Heights, N.J., last month to drop off a roll of film, as he has done for about two decades.
But a sign on the familiar drop-box next to the juice aisle informed [...]
Posted in Photo Printing on Aug 29th, 2007 No Comments »
Eric Chan has a useful article: Getting Started with Inkjet Printing that covers printers, paper, ink types, color management, calibration, profiling, and more.
Eric Chan is a Visiting Scientist at Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories (MERL), where he conducts research in computer graphics.
[via Red River Paper Blog]
Posted in Photo Printing on Aug 16th, 2007 No Comments »
Photo Pro has a useful video on Paper Handling & Paper Selection for printing digital photographs.
[via Gary Sharp]
Posted in Macintosh, Photo Editing Software, Photo Printing on Jun 27th, 2007 No Comments »
This is a tip and/or reminder for anyone out there using Aperture.
Aperture has a feature called “Onscreen Proofing” that allows you to set the color-space (proofing profile) you’re doing your adjustments in; sRGB, Adobe RGB and any paper profiles you have installed.
Because I sometimes print direct from Aperture on Canon Fine Art Photo Rag paper, [...]
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