Digital BW, The Print

Frank,

I printed my Christmas cards on Photo Rag this year and it took me 
awhile to get a good fold my hane. What worked best was to place the 
two ends of the paper up against the a ridged straight edge (the edge 
on my Rotatrim paper cutter was great), double check the alignment 
and then created a soft crease starting at one end of the fold (not 
the middle) and sweeping smooth across.

I then used a finger nail to sharpen up the fold but Antonis's 
sugestion of a burnishing bone is a much better idea.

you can do everything from Photoshop. You just have to plot out the 
front and back of the sheet correctly.

Martin Wesley


--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., "frankgrossphotography" 
<frank@f...> wrote:
> Hi Antonis,
> I'm new to this 'hood and am still figuring out the protocol.
> Thank you for responding.
> 
> > to make sure the scoring is done at consistent right angles to 
the 
> edge of the photo (which may not always print parallel to the edge 
of 
> the paper). >
> 
> Why would it not print parallel ?
> 
> I hope to print something about the size of a cd jewel case/cover 
> when it's folded (approx 5 or 6inch). And when it's opened it'd 
have 
> 6 or so small images (approx 4x4 inches each) spread out (depends 
on 
> how many I can fit) on the sheet's length). 
> 
> If I want a "cover/front page" image too, it'd have to be printed 
on 
> the reverse side of the paper sheet in order to appear on the front 
> when it's accordian folded.
> 
> I was hoping to output this to an 1160 from Photoshop using the MIS 
> VM inks and the appropriate curves. I woder if this is possible or 
if 
> it would have to be layed out & printed from a page layout 
program ? 
> Which of  course would defeat the Quadtone workflow.
> thanks 
> Frank

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