Digital BW, The Print

Hello All, 
 If anyone is in the LA area I welcome you to check out;

 http://www.faheykleingallery.com/featured_artists/laita/laita_frames.htm
 
 Mark Laita has a show running at the Fahey Klein gallery from Sept, 7 thru Oct 
 14th.
 
 He shot the portraits all on 8x10 film, and they are quite stunning. So if 
 your are a fan of large format photography I'd highly recommend you check them 
 out.  There will be about 22 life size prints (printed on 50" rolls of Silver 
 Rag) along with about 15 – 20 smaller sizes.
 
 Technical stuff:
 All Printed at BowHaus using a proprietary version of IJC/OPM written to work 
 with an 8-color Roland
 MIS inks.
 Silver Rag.
 Coated with Premier Art Shield.
 Mounted to 3mm Dibond.
 
 Joe Berndt
 Bowhaus, Inc.

>Mark Laita has a show running at the Fahey Klein gallery 
>He shot the portraits all on 8x10 film, and they are quite stunning. 

Wow, what a brilliant show.  The portraits are beautifully done and no
doubt printed to the same standard.  What a cast of characters!  I
wonder how far and for how long he had to travel to get these.

I wonder what it costs in ink and paper to make a life size SR print...


Regards,
Clayton


Info on black and white digital printing at    
http://www.cjcom.net/digiprnarts.htm

> 
>> Mark Laita has a show running at the Fahey Klein gallery
>> He shot the portraits all on 8x10 film, and they are quite stunning.
> 
> Wow, what a brilliant show.  The portraits are beautifully done and no
> doubt printed to the same standard.  What a cast of characters!  I
> wonder how far and for how long he had to travel to get these.

Hello Clayton,

I think he has been working on this for many years, some of them he shot
before 2000.  From what I remember he tried to visit and photograph people
from every state, don't know if he ever finished.
> 
> I wonder what it costs in ink and paper to make a life size SR print...

Ink was not as costly as the paper, we went through about 15 Rolls of the 50
inch paper.

Joe

> 
> Regards,
> Clayton
>

Hello Joe,

>I think he has been working on this for many years, some of them he 
>shot before 2000.  From what I remember he tried to visit and 
>photograph people from every state, don't know if he ever finished.

Very interesting, thanks.  I'll bet he could tell some stories...
I'm curious as to how he approached people and got past suspicions.  


>Ink was not as costly as the paper, we went through about 15 Rolls of 
>the 50 inch paper.

I forgot to ask, what MIS inks were used?  Thanks very much.


Regards,
Clayton


Info on black and white digital printing at    
http://www.cjcom.net/digiprnarts.htm

Hello Joe,

  I am quite curious about the inks too. Is it a propriatary dilution
or daes he use a commercial inkset?

Thanks,

  Cheers
Daniela



--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Clayton Jones"
<cj@...> wrote:

>
> Hello Joe,
> 
> >I think he has been working on this for many years, some of them he 
> >shot before 2000.  From what I remember he tried to visit and 
> >photograph people from every state, don't know if he ever finished.
> 
> Very interesting, thanks.  I'll bet he could tell some stories...
> I'm curious as to how he approached people and got past suspicions.  
> 
> 
> >Ink was not as costly as the paper, we went through about 15 Rolls of 
> >the 50 inch paper.
> 
> I forgot to ask, what MIS inks were used?  Thanks very much.
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Clayton
> 
> 
> Info on black and white digital printing at    
> http://www.cjcom.net/digiprnarts.htm
>

Hello,

We used the LK and LLK from the 3-D set and warmed them up with the pure
Carbon from the k4 inks.

That gave us a nice range from a cool to a very warm Carbon.

Joe

On 9/5/06 7:53 AM, "dgattarino" <dgattarino@...> wrote:

>  
>  
>  
> 
> Hello Joe,
> 
> I am quite curious about the inks too. Is it a propriatary dilution
> or daes he use a commercial inkset?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Cheers
> Daniela
> 
> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
> <mailto:DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint%40yahoogroups.com> , "Clayton Jones"
> <cj@...> wrote:
>> >
>> > Hello Joe,
>> > 
>>> > >I think he has been working on this for many years, some of them he
>>> > >shot before 2000.  From what I remember he tried to visit and
>>> > >photograph people from every state, don't know if he ever finished.
>> > 
>> > Very interesting, thanks.  I'll bet he could tell some stories...
>> > I'm curious as to how he approached people and got past suspicions.
>> > 
>> > 
>>> > >Ink was not as costly as the paper, we went through about 15 Rolls of
>>> > >the 50 inch paper.
>> > 
>> > I forgot to ask, what MIS inks were used?  Thanks very much.
>> > 
>> > 
>> > Regards,
>> > Clayton
>> > 
>> > 
>> > Info on black and white digital printing at
>> > http://www.cjcom.net/digiprnarts.htm
>> >
> 
> 
> 




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Joe Berndt wrote, in part:

>We used the LK and LLK from the 3-D set and warmed them up with 
> the pure Carbon from the k4 inks.

>That gave us a nice range from a cool to a very warm Carbon.

Well, relatively cool.  The 3D LK has about 2/3s the blue toner that is in
EZ-N.  The midtone Lab on Crane SR is (52, 1.1, 2.5).  The LLK is just
diluted LK.  

See my forum message # 78411 (7/13/06), which notes, in part:

"What I've tried to do is get a couple birds with one stone. The UT-3D LK
and LLK inks are blended B&W inks that are relatively neutral. They plus an
appropriate black ink can make a good B&W by themselves -- like a neutral
monotone B&W inkset, which they are. As such, with a rip you can print a
pure or mostly blended B&W with a k2 or k3 printer and avoid the color
dots."

Paul
www.PaulRoark.com