1 - About printing and printers Printing is the least popular digital photography activity today. We capture a lot of digital photographs, we process a large number of them and we post many images on our websites, blogs and social media pages. Unfortunately we print a very small number of these images. As I wrote in my previous essay, Printing and Traditions, making prints in … [Read more...]
Turning Photographs Into Art Part 7: Printing from Lightroom Part C – Color Management
1 - Introduction: about printers If papers are important, something I discussed in my previous essay, printers are just as important. After all, it is the printer that lays the ink that goes onto the paper. As such the printer is the worker, the intermediary between what we see on the screen and what we get on the paper. Unfortunately, or fortunately, depending on how you l … [Read more...]
The Dark Art of Scanner Profiling
About This Article This article – exclusively downloadable from Luminous-Landscape – is an extensive excursion into scanner profiling, focusing on two products that came to market recently. At about the same time that LaserSoft Imaging issued its Advanced scanner profiling targets, basICColor issued version 5 of its basICColor Input application, used for making scanner and dig … [Read more...]
Epson FastFoto FF640 Scanner
Fast, Simple and Fun Scanner for Preserving Memories If you are a regular reader of Luminous-Landscape, you’ll know that I am a big proponent of printing. Photography for me is all about the print. In a previous article, I showed a small printer, the Epson PictureMate PM-400. For me, this was a way I could make small prints made from iPhone images, which is another cam … [Read more...]
Epson SC-P5000 Printer Review
The Epson SC-P5000 Printer “Executive” Summary What the Printer Is: It’s a replacement for the Epson SP4900, incorporating the new Ultrachrome HDX ink set and some design improvements described in the review. It is a production printer designed for use without many days of interruption. What the Printer is Not: The basic design and much of the printer’s operational fea … [Read more...]
