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Author: Harald Johnson
ISBN : 1592004318
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Providing an enhanced edition of the first, every page of this book has been reviewed, overhauled, updated, or revised with an emphasis on "current" and "changing" technology. This full-color guide provides all the information necessary to execute the latest advanced printing and image-editing techniques. It is the definitive resource to the digital imaging and printing revolution. With an in-depth understanding of digital printing, readers learn a number of techniques including how to choose the right inkjet printer, inks and papers; make a great inkjet print by following the complete, step-by-step workflow process; and determine and test for print permanence. This book is illustratively easy to follow and visually inspirational, offering plenty of sidebars, charts, diagrams, and photos as well as an exciting gallery of the best in digital fine art. Filling the need for a very large audience, "Mastering Digital Printing, 2nd Edition" can be useful to traditional artists, digital artists, printmakers, art marketers, vendors/suppliers to the industry, trade and arts organizations, and art schools and training workshops. Due to changing technology, references to equipment, supplies, hardware, and software have been reviewed and updated with all new products highlighted wherever possible. Concise and comprehensive, this encyclopedic resource guide provides readers with a thorough introduction to this new expressive medium.
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- Series: Digital Process and Print
- Paperback: 398 pages
- Publisher: Cengage Learning PTR; 2 edition (October 26, 2004)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1592004318
- ISBN-13: 978-1592004317
- Product Dimensions: 1.1 x 7.3 x 9 inches
- Shipping Weight: 2.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
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Anyone who has ventured seriously into creating digital art sooner or later stumbles into the uncharted sea of printing. Once an artist has finally created his or her masterpiece on the computer, they must contend with a vast array of new printing technologies, image management software (sometimes called RIP), and different ink types and substrates to produce their final print. Until now that process has remained a complete mystery to all but a few. But at last Harald Johnson has come forward with his new book Mastering Digital Printing to explain the process from the basics to the complex.
Perhaps what I like most about the book is that is not just a technical manual, but really goes a long way into addressing head on some of the issues that are raging in the art world today regarding digital artwork. Things like what the difference is between a digital reproduction and digital original, and what a Giclee print is. These topics really shed some light onto some controversial and often overlooked issues.
On the technical side he does a very deft job of delicately explaining complex terms such as printer resolution, dpi, and lpi so that even a beginner can start to get an adequate grasp of the subject. This is a book aimed at artists, not propeller heads. And while his coverage of the different printing technologies may be a bit more information than most artists want, it is never the less important when one is considering [purchasing]a print based on those technologies. He also does an outstanding job of explaining scanning and what artists really need to know about sending out work to be scanned, or scanning it themselves.
Finally he addresses two important issues for the professional artist, permanence and substrates.
A Virtual Milestone
Harald Johnson's new book, Mastering Digital Printing: The Photographer's and Artist's Guide to High-Quality Digital Output (Muska & Lipman, December 2002) seems to me something of a milestone, not only for its prodigious content, but for its very concept. For Johnson has not only written the Bible of digital printing for fine-art printmakers and photographers, but he has also solved the abiding problem of people who write books on technical subjects: currency. Technology changes fast and books on technological subjects go stale just as rapidly. So Johnson has provided his readers/practitioners with the added support of both a website ([...]) and a lively online discussion group ([...]) which he created a couple of years ago and conscientiously moderates. Into the Fourth Dimension
These online resources constantly lever the power and actuality of the book, providing instant access to current information on the ever-changing state of the art. More than a simple book, what Johnson has created is a "metabook" which extends its domain into the fourth dimension: time. This is a prodigious achievement for one man working on his own, one for which Johnson-the Prometheus of digital printing-is to be admired and congratulated.
Have I made the book sound stuffy? Far from it! Mastering Digital Printing is written in a personal conversational style which is more like a chat with a friendly expert than a technical manual. It is wide ranging both in breadth and depth, of interest both to beginners and experts.