Photobooks are a popular way to present photographs in your own book. In the past I’ve used photobox to make my books which I use as presents for family and fill them with pictures of my son over the past year. These are fairly cheap but I’ve never been happy with the paper that they use Read the rest of this entry »
Recently my mum gave me some old B&W photographs that she wanted scanned, fixed and copies printed. These where photos from her childhood mainly from the 1950’s so I wanted to be able to print them out on the best paper suitbale for the job. Read the rest of this entry »
Trying to fine where to buy your paper and ink can be a long and tirsome process. Since I’m quite a heavy user of both ink and various papers I have wittled down my list of suppliers for the best price incuding P+P Read the rest of this entry »
Harman Technologies ltd was formed in 2005 by 6 former managers of ILFORD Imaging UK Limited. The company trades as ILFORD PHOTO for the range of monochrome film, paper, and photo chemistry products and in 2007 announced a range of fine art professional inject papers.
February 2007 saw the launch of Harman MATT FB Mp, with the warm tone version arriving a month later in March. Read the rest of this entry »
update 18.04.08 - review can be found here
Harman were nice enough to send me samples of their paper range for a recent presentation I did on fine art papers at ayr photographic society . At focus on imaging Harman released a warm tone verson of their very popular gloss FB AL paper and although this was too late for my paper review it is in time for my blog. Sadly my epson R2400 has contracted a problem with recognising one of the ink carts so I’m having to put back the review untill it gets sorted.
Calumet have added four fine art papers to their standard paper range. These new editions to the range are called Brilliant museum satin matte & silver gloss and are offered in both white and natural paper.
Brilliant blurb
“Brilliant Museum digital media has been especially formulated to meet the high standards and preferences of the most discriminating fine art printer. Made in Germany to exacting specifications using the most technologically advanced methods, these papers are optimally coated for the latest pigment inks, but will also secure superb results with dye-based inks. They are capable of yielding extremely high resolution and amazing color depth”
So what are these papers like, well its a tale of good, the bad and the ugly. We will start with the good and that is the satin matte paper.
“The world’s first digital Fine Art Inkjet paper made from bamboo fibres combines spiritual photography with environmental friendliness. This natural art paper with its premium inkjet coating guarantees Fine Art prints with a 3-dimensional image depth and is particularly suitable for warm-toned colour and monochrome prints. Its fine soft haptic also lends a tangible fourth dimension to fine art prints.”
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