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Welcome to the official Piezography® website. You’ll find all the information there is about this unique black & white printing process here including its history (from 1999 until the present), and many of its best practitioners.
New in 2010, you can purchase online authentic Piezography prints which I produce at Cone Editions Press for photographers using the many variations of the Piezography ink sets. Each print, whether you choose a signed or unsigned print, is produced in a limited edition accompanied by a documentation sheet, bears the printer chop of Cone Editions Press, and a serial number in graphite on the verso. This is how we assure you the authenticity of each print you purchase.
The Piezography print, being the first fine black & white digital process is to digital photography what the Daguerrotype was to traditional photography. There have been several attempts to imitate the process that have not been successful for a number of reasons. Even Epson and HP are now attempting to produce fine black & white inkjet by combining black pigments with color pigments. But Piezography, now in its 10th year, still sets the standard by which all other black & white processes are judged. It has a unique combination of surface reflection, high fidelity, and tone due to a proprietary pigment manufacturing process. The fidelity of black & white images made with this seven shaded ink process is superior to those made with only three or four shades of ink.
You can begin browsing the photographers which we are publishing by clicking here. This will become a growing archive of available works by many different photographers.
The distinctive qualities of a Piezography print are:
- By using seven distinct shades of carbon based pigment ink, a grayscale image is divided into more divisible gradations than can be realized when using only three shades as found in systems such as Epson ABW and MIS Unitone, or four shades as found in the HP quadtone sytems.
- Seven shades of ink combined with our proprietary profiling process produce enhanced highlight and shadow detail that exceed what is capable using silver-based or platinum-based traditional darkroom processes.
- Increased resolution from the printer on which it is installed produces contact-print, tack sharp results even at enlargement. The manufacturer’s print driver is eliminated and a proprietary Piezography curves structure is utilized that eliminates the low-frequency dithering from the manufacturer’s intended process.
- Pure monochromatic tone based in either Sepia, Selenium, Neutral, Warm Neutral or several SplitTone™ inksets.
- Proprietary structure of Piezography pigments produce zero metamerism.
- Glossy Piezography prints are metamerism-free and bronze-free, appearing to be virtual replicants of air-dried darkroom fiber-based silver prints. There is no gloss differential between the printed parts of the image and the non-printed parts of the paper. Piezography Glossy prints is the only process that truly imitates the surface and reflection qualities of traditional darkroom printing.
- A unique surface quality that reflects light in a manner that suggests depth.
- The longevity of a Piezography print includes stability to its color tone as well as density.
Piezography® is a USA registered trademark for a system of monochromatic inks and software that I have been developing since 1994. Piezography has a users base of thousands of photographers worldwide who are producing their own prints with the inkjet systems that I produce and sell to the public.