Piezography Soft Proofing
Introduction Soft Proof is a feature that has long been used in Photoshop for previewing images as they will appear in print. The “Soft” is for software. Proofs are normally hard copies that are printed to give the designer or photographer and idea of how a digital image will print prior to going to press. The Soft Proof therefore, is a way to look at an image that is being converted...
Read MoredMax
What can you say about dMax that has not already been said? A little. And tons. In the analogue days of old it was drilled into us by our teachers that a darkroom print required a strong black and a white. Yet, they never literally meant that. They attempted to get us to see contrast in order to awaken our senses. We needed a strong white and a strong black in order to first see that. Then,...
Read MorePrinting images from Photoshop =>CS4
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 this is how QTR instructs it’s MacOS users to use QTR. By the way, this only affects MacOS users of QTR. The Windows version is a stand-alone app. Most Mac users print to QTR...
Read MoreCalibration! Do I need it?
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 Good job – your calibration allows you to see some shadow detail, not all. 16 – 19 Better than most but you’re missing the very dark shadow details you...
Read MoreA Calibration Primer
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 designed curve has the uncanny ability to map the entire 8-bit grayscale space (256 gray levels) onto a media. Piezography provided many of these media curves at no charge as part of the installation of...
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