Over the last couple of years I have used a number of different print production techniques ranging from early EnCAD four colour large format inkjet printers to todays' latest 8 and 12 colour ColorSpan printers. I have also used Durst Lambda digital photographic printer and my own smaller Epson Stylus Photo 1200 6 colour and Epson Photo 2100 8 colour A3 desktop printer with pigment inks.

With trial and error I have come up with a system that produces, protects and projects the quality of finish I'm trying to achieve when reproducing my work for mounting, framing and hanging.

The images that I now print are printed on one of the following three different printers depending on the production and envoronment requirements.

These prints are output onto either Cibachrome or C-type photographic paper. This printing method is ideal for most of my earlier work that was created with an earth textural finish in mind. Most of the Look Up, Look Down show was reprodued on this printer. The colour space (printable colour gammut) of this printer is limited in the green part of its spectrum and should not be specified for the GeoMax or the Glow series of images.

ColorSpan Mach 12

The ColorSpan Mach 12 is a 12 colour digital printer that has available to it up to 12 colours in the extended CMYK range or in an enhanced colour range that builds on green and oranges.

For the last two shows I have used the Colorspan Mach 12 with an 8 colour CMYK extended set of inks and printed using an Onyx Graphics PosterShop 5.6 RIP to manage the process. This is currently my printer of choice.

A new pigment-based inkjet printer hit the market mid-2002 and bought affordable long-life photo-quality prints to the masses. Well, sort of.

The printer used long-life pigment inks that last far longer than the traditional dye-based inks used in most small inkjet printers. The PHOTO 2100 is an 8 colour printer with independent ink reserviours for black, pale black, cyan, pale cyan, magenta, pale magenta and yellow. The inks are rated to a similar lifespan and colourfastness as cibachrome photographic prints, but with a wider dynamic colour gamut range.

Previously used processes

Click on the full production notes in the utility menu below the logo on this page for a glimps of what different technologies I have used for each show over the last eight years.

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