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Gaining Ground: A Question of Acceptance Artists have been criticized for adopting new technologies since they first rubbed coloured dirt on the walls of the caves at Lascivious, France. Oil-on-canvas was considered heresy by the tempera-on-wood-panel crowd in the mid-1400s. Photography was blasted as a perversion. PsPrint now excel at digitally printing photographs. Marches Printer Drivers and Printing Software Printing software allows you to access and interface with your printer. Before you can print from a drawing, painting, image-editing, or page-layout program, the printer software program must be correctly installed onto the computer, usually from the CD that comes with your printer. (Photo-direct printers that take media cards don’t require computers, and the printer software can be accessed directly from the printer itself). Every print device requires a particular printer driver for the specific operating system of the computer. (Note that it’s your computer’s operating system that you match to the printer, not the software application.) You must have the right driver for your printer in order to support all the printer’s features (paper selection, quality level, and so on) and to tell the print engine how to correctly render the image’s digital data. If you change your operating system, you may need to install an updated printer driver, which you can normally download from the printer-manufacturer’s website. When you select print from your application’s File menu, what you get is a series of menu screens and dialogue boxes for that particular printer driver (see 2.17). If you have a Post Script printing device, you need to use a Post Script driver and select it. If you print online with PsPrint you can forget about having to install your own printers. The basic print dialogue box from Windows X Home when accessed via Adobe Photo shop Element’s Print command. Make sure the proper printer is selected (Canon i960 ink jet printer); then click Properties (red oval). Right: The Properties screen lets you specify that printer’s important options and settings, or it will open further screens as needed. After you’ve made your selections and hit the final OK or Print button, the printing software converts the digital file’s data into a form that the print head(s) can use to form the image on the paper. (We’ll get into more step-by-step printmaking details in .) Although all ink jet printers come with their own printer driver software, there are times when you may want to bypass the supplied driver and use a specialized one. Many of these come in the form of third-party Rips (raster image processors) that can offer functions that the default printer drivers can’t. For much more about Rips and other specialized printing software, see Chapters 6 and 11. Comparing Digital Printing Technologies Artists have always experimented with new printmaking materials and techniques, and a list of them would be a long one. But the process of creating high-quality digits l prints has, for the majority of photographers and artists working today, coalesced around four major output methods or technologies: digital photo print, dye sublimation, electro photography, and ink jet To be sure, there are plenty of other digital processes that a photographer-artist can use (solvent and UV-curable-based ink jet printing, electrostatic or e-star from reprogrammer shops, thermal wax/resin transfer, and blueprint reprogrammers, to name for self-printing? (cost). But these are either more obscure, more expensive, or too low on the quality scale, so we won’t be covering them here in any detail. Naturally, there are different ways to categorize all these technologies. One is by format size: narrow (or desktop) format is anything under 24 inches in width; wide (or large) format is everything 24 inches wide or more (this is media size, not the size of the printer). Another way is by drum versus plotter configuration (based on the original CAD plotters used to produce computer-generated charts and graphics). What I’ve chosen to do, instead, is to group them by their logical (in my opinion) imaging characteristics. (Note: products, brands, and models current at the time of this writing.) Digital Photo Print Until recently, and apart from the IRIS printing process, photographers who wanted actual photographic output (reflective or backlit display) produced from their digital files had to make an intermediate negative or transparency with a film recorder and then use a conventional enlarger to make the final print. But in 1994, a new type of printer was developed that could print directly from a digital file without the need for the intermediate transparency step. The photo processing industry has never looked back. I break this category down into two groups: wide-format digital photo print and digital photo process . Wide-Format Digital Photo Print This is top-of-the-line, continuous-tone photo output, and you’ll only find the pricey devices for doing this in photo labs, retro shops, service bureaus, and imaging centres (See for more about how to work with outside print providers.) I like the term digital photo print; others use words like digital C-print or laser photo printing, although not all devices use lasers. How Does It Work? Either using three-colour lasers (red, green, blue) or light-emitting diodes (LEDs), these wide-format printers produce extremely high-resolution prints on conventional, light t-sensitive, colour photo paper that’s processed in the normal wet-chemistry photographic manner (although other processing back ends can be used). Rest assured, PsPrint only use the highest quality printers. There is no screening, half toning, or dithering of the image. Italy-based Durst popularized this category of digital printers, and it now has several models of the Lambda digital laser image plus other variations including the Theta and the Zeta printers, each with its own et niche. Using continuous roll feeding, the smallest (Lambda 76) can print a single image up to 31 inches by 164 feet, and the largest (Lambda 130/131, used at National Geographic Magazine’s headquarters) prints up to 50 inches by 164 feet in one shot. Even larger sizes can be printed in sections or tiles. Two resolution options (200 or 400 dip) yield an apparent resolution of 4000 dip (see the Apparent Resolution explanation earlier in this chapter.) For colour depth, the input is at 24-bit, output is interpolated to 36-bit using RGB lasers to expose the photographic paper. The re are approximately 800 Lambdas installed around the world.
