Tuesday, 2 June 2009

The joy of printing


A sunny morning and an early rise - so what to do?   Printing.  I know this is not what many people would have thought but I do find it very therapeutic.   It is a precise and yet requires a degree of artistic flair to get it about right.  I say about right because you never get a perfect reproduction of what you see on the screen what with converting from 16bit to 8 bit, issues surrounding gamut and so on.   Now I have to wait.  The most important lesson I have learnt is that you cannot really judge whether a print is sucessful until at least 24 hours after it has been printed - this allows the inks to properly dry.  So I have 15 A4 sheets of paper hanging about the place - a nice problem to have althought I am not sure my long suffering wife sees it this way.

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