Digital BW, The Print

For just toning down the border a little with the UT-3D inkset, I'm not sure
worrying about that part of the image being pure carbon v. a neutral mix is
worth worrying much about.  All the inks in a dedicated B&W inkset like the
3D are so low in color that the paper color will dominate the very lightest
shades.  For example, on a rather highly brightened Kirkland glossy paper at
L = 93, the pure carbon Lab (a,b) is (.18, -2.8).  At L = 93 the neutral
Kirkland ICC prints with a color (.2, -3.24).  I'm not sure there is enough
difference between these two shades to bother with more than just putting a
very light gray border around the grayscale image and printing with the ICC.


 

For reference, my Light Impressions Gallery White is an un-brightened paper
with a lab of about (96, 1.7, 4.5).  A B&W inkset can gray down the border
areas a bit, but it cannot match the degree of warmth of this non-OBA mat,
at least not on a bright paper like Kirkland and up that high on the
Lightness value.

 

Non-OBA paper is the best solution I've found for work that is going to be
matted and displayed that way.  

 

Of course, what I'd like to do is get rid of the mat board entirely (and
glass, for that matter).  Since people seem to expect glass and some
mat-like border, one way to do this is simply use an oversize piece of paper
and print an appropriate border on it.  It appears that matte inkjet paper,
especially if sprayed with Lascaux, does not stick to glass when it is
directly against it.  With this solution you have a match of tones, and you
save the money of a matte board.  

 

More for demonstration than anything else, I've made images with "faux mats"
(simulated over-mat printed on oversize paper), and most viewers don't
notice that there is really no over-mat there at all.  For this approach I
actually scanned a mat board to get the texture.  Then I just use a
grayscale file to print it with whatever workflow I'm using.  I don't bother
with split toning.  It works surprisingly well.  I put a sample on my photo
home page at www.PaulRoark.com <http://www.paulroark.com/>    

 

Paul

www.PaulRoark.com <http://www.paulroark.com/>  

 

 

 

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From: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
[mailto:DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Steven
Karafyllakis
Sent: Friday, July 14, 2006 5:45 AM
To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [Digital BW] 3D Inks- Questin for Paul

 

Hi Paul;

I'm looking for a way to match the border area of a print to the mat 
color that isn't too much of a pain. Is it possible to apply different 
profiles to separate layers of an image with 3D? That would enable me 
to print a warm very light grey border with a neutral image. 

Regards,

Steven Karafyllakis

 



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