Fine Art Printing for Photographers: Exhibition Quality Prints With Inkjet Printers

I've been sending my work out for printing for several years and wanted to gain creative and quality control of my own work. Printers and papers and all the technical things related to creating fine art works seemed very daunting to me. I did not have the advantage of years of experience in traditional darkroom and printing to make the jump in all the print concepts to the digital world. This book brought me up to speed on all I needed to know to feel comfortable jumping in and producing quality prints immediately.I had already mastered to my satisfaction post processing techniques and digital darkroom techniques to ensure that my prints sent out to services returned satisfactorily, so the concepts in this book related to post processing were easily understood. If you are new to digital post-processing, you may need to spend some time on resources outside this book to become proficient with them. This book does not teach what all the programs and techniques do but instead how they influence and help you express your own vision.There are also many links in the book to tools and websites for other techniques and information that I found useful.This book does a good job of covering paper and ink types and how the choices you make there might impact your work. That was exactly what I needed. The book also covers the current brands and types of printers as well as how to set up and use ICC profiles for printers and papers as well as how to update and use the printer drivers inside both iOS and Windows.The Kindle edition almost made me give this book four stars because of some of the display quirks, but it isn't that bad and the content of the book really helped to make a substantial impact on my selection of printers and paper choices. I bought the Kindle edition because the print copy was not yet available.

I am a "hack" photographer who prints at home for local competitions and my own enjoyment and struggled for probably a year to get to grips with ICC profiles, colour space and the raft of differences between what you see on your monitor and what the printer produces. While I had come a fair way towards getting prints that I am happy with, this book is taking my understanding so much further. Even though I am currently using an ancient Epson A4 6 ink photo printer, the principles explained do (as the author says) translates to all standards of printers.A raft of information about colour space, profiles, papers, calibration, printers and how they work, printing in colour and mono, specific information about types of printers, and a level of technical information that can be skipped if desired, this is the kind of reference that I will be returning to from time to time. Set out in clear sections, it is easy to just concentrate of the specific area you are having issues with at the moment and you find a great deal of information that is likely to be of use. It is also providing a good deal of useful information for me as I seek a replacement printer.Wish I had found this a year ago ......would have saved a lot of ink and paper. Highly recommended.

I bought this because I was ready to upgrade to a better printer. And I have been looking to better understand the fine art printing process for digital photos. This book was very informative. In places, it got a bit too technical. But it is organized clearly; you can very easily find the part of most interest to you; and it is very neutral in its information.The one weakness is that it really focuses on Photoshop use and does not get into other software. But that didn't bother me because it is a book focused on printing, not on processing with software. There are other books and online resources for that!This book did ultimately help me select a better, more sophisticated printer for my current needs. That was the most helpful part for me.

Just started printing fine art prints although a long time artist and Photoshop user. I wanted to know and learn how to produce excellent prints with my new wide format printer or how to work with printer on demand outfits. This book has it all, explains in detail all the techie stuff I aspired to learn, about color profiles, papers, output workflow, much more. I love it, like having an extra manual for my printer and resources to look up even more information.

This is always a slighted topic with all software and particularly photography programs. Getting whats on you screen over to a matching print has never been harder than today because the software "options" just get more confusing. This book for the first time brought it all together for me. It is a complete course on how to envision, craft and deliver that perfect print. It not only explains the computer - printer link but also the role of papers, inks and print environment to give you that final image you are looking for. I consider myself a prosumer. I don't shoot for money but I spend a lot of it to get the images I want. The weakness for me has been the ability to first time/every time get that 16x20" print out of the printer and into a display frame. This is the book that got me there.

This book is a masterpiece and essential reading for anyone interested in fine arts printing. I'm about half way through reading the book and have only discovered one point that I (and many others who edit photographs) might disagree with. Steinmuller and Gulbins suggest a monitor calibration using 120 cd/m2 at D65 for print/editing, which is too bright and too blue according to the recommended settings I've read about and have used in practice. I use luminance values of below 100 cd/m2 and monitor a Kelvin temperature of D55 to better match the monitor with the final print.Otherwise, the book is a cornucopia of information and resources.

Excellent writing and very informative book! It's like a text book for printing. My only 'ding' on the book is that many of the illustrations depicting fine art printing examples are not fine enough to be able to distinguish the excellent textual descriptions. But then, the authors explain that in the book when they talk about the different printing methods including press printing and it's limitations. Highly recommended.

Ottimo libro che mi ha permesso di correggere alcuni errori che facevo nel flusso di stampa. Molto chiaro in tutta l'esposizione, ci sono anche i riferimenti a Lightroom. Consigliato per tutti quelli che vogliono padroneggiare e affinare il proprio flusso di stampa.

Delivers on all accounts; Lightroom and Photoshop color management functionality, paper inking processes, printer and paper selection for better results, approach to Black & White printing which diminishes much anxixiety about printing at home. Now wishing the ink prices stop going up and continue to be available for my Epson R2880.

Exactly what I have been looking for. There is so much positive advise if you are serious about black and white.

The book not only describes how to print your images, but also gives all information to optimize your prints by image processing. For those who are really interested in fineart printing a page turner!

If you want to get into, or are doing fine art printing, this is the book to have. They cover all aspects of printing from color space,paper to printers. They explain in easy to understand chapters, that go from the photo to the print.