The Paper Chase

A thanks to John Paul Caponigro and Dan Steinhardt for providing this great glossary of fine art printing terms – a wonderful resource for anyone talking about printing. Besides the glossary, I also wanted to mention a new show at Ten High Street Gallery in Camden which will be having a new show entitled “Looking [...]

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I’m pleased to announce that I now offer deckling of fine art prints for a fixed price of $5/print.  What is deckling?  A deckled print is a print that has one or more edges that are torn instead of being a straight edge.  Mould-made papers often had a soft feathered edge where the deckle (or [...]

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I’ve just posted an article on the VoxPhotographs blog about “green”, or environmentally responsible, printing – check it out here.  I’ve added similar content as well as reviews of the two new papers, Sugar Cane and Bamboo, to the Nickelson Editions site.  Feel free to contact me with any questions!

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Posted on The Luminous Landscape is a short review of the new x300 series of Canon fine art printers.  What is interesting is that the author compares the high end new Canon’s with the high end offerings from Epson and HP and concludes that the differences between the printers, particularly the Canon and Epson x900 [...]

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As many of you may know, RGB printers such as modern inkjet printers do not have a white ink and therefore cannot print a pure white.  If you have an image that has pure white values (such as a blown out highlight), most printers will not lay down ink at that location and you will [...]

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Many black & white photographers are familiar with Lenswork magazine, the excellent fine art black & white magazine that is known for its superb quality of printing.  Founder Brooks Jensen has started a number of promising blogs associated with the magazine, and I wanted to highlight two recent postings that might be of interest to [...]

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