Don Messec: Making Art Safely, Part 2 May 24, 2011 My second day of working with Don Messec [1] of Making Art Safely ( see Part 1 by clicking here [2] ) was intended to be used to determine if Piezography inks can bring anything unique to his photop... artists piezography and food piezography life writing Read more
Don Messec: Making Art Safely, Part 1 May 23, 2011 Last week I was working with Don Messec at his amazing and healthy printmaking studio in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Don has dedicated the last two decades to making art safer for printmakers and artists. I... artists piezography life writing Read more
Piezography for X900!?! Mar 13, 2011 WOW! This is totally unexpected. Roy Harrington (author of QTR) reported last week “Interesting development. I got a hold of a 7900 briefly so I could try the QTR driver. — the method was just to use... 7900 / 990 new products piezography Read more
Printing images from Photoshop =>CS4 Feb 10, 2011 When Photoshop updated CS4, they removed the “No Color Management” option from the Print dialogue. We assumed that printing instead with “Printer Manages Color” would produce the same effect because t... calibration workflow writing Read more
Gimme that old time feeling Jan 23, 2011 This winter I have been shooting with a combination of plastic Diana lenses, single element optic lenses, and my prized Zeiss Distagon 21mm ƒ2.8. Shooting with a diana lens makes me feel a bit nostalg... artists featured piezography development piezography life Read more
A Theory of Two Georges Apr 12, 2010 There is the theory that a few colors can reproduce everything else, and I think of the great French painter Georges Seurat. In the latter part of the 19th century, Seurat painted dots of red, green, ... artists featured piezography life writing Read more
A Calibration Primer Jan 20, 2009 INTRODUCTION* Piezography K7 is intended as a synergistic relationship between seven shades of carbon black ink and a special Piezography curve for the QuadTone RIP (QTR) software. The Piezography des... calibration workflow writing Read more
Pre-Visualization Strategies for Piezography part 3 Jan 20, 2009 So if a photographer can not calibrate their display to print, or refuses to… why would a photographer refuse to calibrate to print? The reason I hear the most, is that they do not like the look of th... calibration workflow writing Read more
Pre-Visualization Strategies for Piezography part 2 Jan 20, 2009 Lets take a look at what happens when a display is calibrated too bright. Many photographer like to look at their images as if they were looking at them on a light box. They often calibrate so that th... calibration workflow writing Read more
Pre-Visualization Strategies for Piezography intro Jan 20, 2009 Standard K7 profiles are made to differentiate between 256 gray levels from RGB value 0 (black) to RGB value 255 (white). Therefore, displays should be calibrated to print specs of an approximate cont... calibration workflow writing Read more
Calibration! Do I need it? Jan 20, 2009 Take a look at the following graphic to find your calibration score. What is the lowest number that you can just barely see? 1 – 9 Fantastic! Great job! You’re calibrated to print. 10 – 15 G... calibration workflow writing Read more
The K7 standard and monitor display systems Dec 26, 2008 THE K7 STANDARD* Piezography K7 profiles when used with K7 inks produce 255 separate shades of gray (256 including white). The Piezography profiles are actually curve sets that I make for the QuadTone... calibration piezography workflow writing Read more