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About Print Quality and More |
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Aside from
the camera itself, when it comes to Fine Art reproduction,
everything -- and I do mean
everything -- speaks in a whisper from the
mouth of a printer: quality doesn't need to
shout, and it doesn't just happen on its own.
Here is my beautiful workhorse, a 400-pound
Canon imagePROGRAF iPF8000 professional printer,
which uses world renowned Canon
Lucia™ 12-color
Archival Pigment Ink, permanent for 75+ years
when, like all quality art, its images are not
subjected to harsh or direct Sunlight. |
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The Printer |
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"MO", my
sweetheart Canon
imagePROGRAF
iPF8000 44-inch Professional
Printer. The print coming
off is a 1:1 exact-size
Premium Matte Canvas Limited Edition
(artist's proof) print of my
original 36x36" painting, Plant
& Dresser. Here, it's
being printed on
44-inch-wide Canon Canvas
Paper with 4-inch borders. This is the
same painting that won
First Place, Painting
at the
prestigious Stockley Gardens
Annual Ghent Arts Festival.
Click here
or the "About my Art" button on the
navigation bar to the left for more
information. The photo of the
printer in action above was taken
with a Canon 5d Mark II camera,
in this instance, hand
held in low light during the first
ever printing session. Look at the
detail circle below. Whenever I convert
original
artwork to image files I ALWAYS use
controlled lighting and -- a TRIPOD!
NEVER hand held. All indispensible tools of the trade.
Truth is, if
the original digital image is not
captured perfectly in focus and
properly exposed right off the bat, the
subsequent fine
art print reproduction process won't
make it any better. |
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Detail
clipped directly from the above photo |
Here I am
placing the first of 12 Lucia™
Pigment Ink cartridges |
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Sure looks like an oil painting to me! |
Look at
the size of those suckers. And they're the small size! |
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That's me.
Yes. Sometimes I really do read the manual! |
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