Sandy King on Carbon Printing with Piezography Digital Negatives
Sandy King was kind enough to allow me to share his observations about the Piezography Digital Negative ink set and his use of it with the carbon process. If you have an interest in the alternative process of carbon printing – there is no better resource than his carbon process yahoo group. If you own a printer that works with Jon Cone’s Digital Negative Methodology #3 system I...
Read MoreDigital Negative Update
I. Background This update is a way to use both Piezography Digital Negative and the Piezography K7 printing systems together by swapping out two ink positions and using newly reorganized QTR curves when one wants to make digital negatives – and then swapping back in the two original Piezography ink positions in order to make prints. The Piezography Digital Negative System was...
Read MorePhotogravure using Image-on HD and Piezography Digital Film
The photogravure process with Image on requires that the blacks first be formed by exposing the plate through an aquatint screen, which, if left unaltered, when inked, would produce a rich black over the whole surface. The subsequent exposure through a film positive causes the Image-on HD film to “close up” the wells of the aquatint relative to the density of the film positive – more...
Read MorePiezography Digital Negative meets Mark Nelson’s Precision Digital Negative (PDN optional not required)
Last week in the darkroom, I used Mark Nelson’s Precision Digital Negative (PDN) system to linearize a Piezography Digital Negative. The PDN system was designed for use with color inks and the Epson printer driver. Through a five step process it creates a digital negative by choosing the best combination of color inks that block UV light and creating and exporting a Photoshop curve that is...
Read MoreDigital Negatives: Getting very long in the shadow
Piezography Digital Negative number nine, number nine, number nine, number nine… Number thirty actually. Thirty different major curve architectures, or software methodologies have now passed since I last wrote about this subject. I think #30 is the charm. Last week I created a new software that makes curves directly for the silver paper, rather than indirectly through the negative...
Read MoreThe Darkroom Revisited – version 2
Yesterday, I was in the darkroom with Ilford MultiGrade IV paper, Sprint Chemistry, and Piezography digital-negatives. It was fun and dark. With water running quietly, it seemed quite meditative. Perfect to pass hours. My cell phone has awesome speakers for quiet places and I eventually finished my time listening to old Alvin Ranglin produced singles. Alvin was a record producer in Jamaica...
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