Printing with Piezography® Pro inks on handmade Washi paper
George Wiedenhofer challenged us to produce two portfolios of prints on Echizen Washi handmade by the living Master Ichibei Iwano IX. The paper is gorgeous. It is also slightly irregularly shaped making it impossible to feed directly into the printer. The paper making process created a surface that is also slightly fuzzy. There is no coating on the paper to help with density and dMax.
We used the Piezography Pro carbon based monochromatic ink set (which we invented) and George selected a split tone of cool highlights and warm shadows so that the prints have a platinum/palladium quality.
In order to ensure registration of the images in the middle of the sheets and to guarantee feeding into the printer so that the deckled edges would not strike the printhead, we used backing sheets. The paper was held down with large Post-it tape.
Prior to printing we created an uncoated Piezography profile for the Echizen Washi paper. We also produced an ICC profile through which we are able to match our carbon prints to George's display. No surprises nor disappointments that way.
The Piezography Pro ink set is controlled with the QuadTone RIP printer driver. However, we invented our ow profiling system. shop.inkjetmall.com sells our inks and software for many different Epson printer models. In this video we converted an Epson Stylus Pro 9900 to the 11 ink monochromatic system.
To learn more about Cone Editions Press and how you can have us print your images: cone-editions.com/
To learn more about the Piezography ink systems for your printer: piezography.com/
To learn more about George Wiedenhofer's work: www.gwphotographs.com/
Пікірлер: 23
Boards of Canada was a very lovely, unexpected touch
I love it when I see skilled craftsmen performing their craft... It helps me trust when I deliver my work, as a photographer, for printing...
This was terrific to watch. Inspires me to try something like this - I love washi paper. Thanks for making this video!
Love the print on the handmade paper!
I never thought of supporting the Washi paper on a more rigid base. that open up a whole new world of printing possibility. Thank you.
@ConeEditions
4 жыл бұрын
Happy to help!
The work of a print Master !!! Great video as usual!
@ConeEditions
4 жыл бұрын
Thanks!
lovely, perfect, thank you Jon
@ConeEditions
4 жыл бұрын
My pleasure!
Wonderful to watch the process of how you did this..
@ConeEditions
4 жыл бұрын
It's wonderful to share!
Wonderful
Bravo
Great video, beautiful looking prints! Thanks Jon! Since the paper is so thin did you use the same backing sheet when you made the uncoated paper profile (.quads) and .icc profile?
@ConeEditions
3 жыл бұрын
Hi Michael, we did. We kept the target mounted on a thin white receiver paper in order to bring the luminance up on the 700 gray patch target. The print to screen match was really good! :)
Jon - What's the specific Washi paper you're using?
@ConeEditions
3 жыл бұрын
It is Echizen Washi. kzread.info/dash/bejne/h3ttp6-hp9m4mKw.html
@F1lmtwit
3 жыл бұрын
@@ConeEditions thanks
Does this paper need to be pre- coated like commercial papers are for inkjet/pigment printing?
@ConeEditions
Жыл бұрын
No, not at all. Most of the gampi and traditional washi take inkjet ink beautifully. But, you do often need to better control the amount of ink being printed on it. ICC profiling can help. But, we use a printer driver that we can more easier control how the ink is printed, the total amount of ink from all the channels, and then on top of that we profile with the Piezography Professional Edition toolkit. But, you can also get really beautiful results by on these paper with traditional printer driver that comes with the printer. You would probably need play around with the different paper settings in the printer driver to get an idea of what setting produces the best ink output on the paper. Coating it removes a lot of the more intrinsic and lovely qualities that the gampi has (like sheen...) The inks then sheen... They are definitely worth the work.....
@dorothykloss5303
Жыл бұрын
@@ConeEditions Thanks! I just started learning Richard Boutwell's Quick Curve-QCDN to go with my epson p800. I love the rice papers and will defiitely look in to it. Is there a front and back side to this paper? I'm so sorry I missed George's Show at the Crary Gallery. We're only an hour away, but we were in Maine at the time.
@joncone
Жыл бұрын
@@dorothykloss5303 both sides are printable but also usually different from one another. We print on the smoother side.