All Outputs (130)

What happens to prints during storage? To evaluate the whiteness of artists’ enhanced inkjet papers and colour changes in relation to fading of ink (2006)
Book Chapter

The tests emulate a range of storage conditions by generating layers of printed inkjet test charts to determine what happens to prints during storage and over time. For the home user of photo-printers onto glossy media, storage conditions for printed... Read More about What happens to prints during storage? To evaluate the whiteness of artists’ enhanced inkjet papers and colour changes in relation to fading of ink.

Customising digital printing for fine art practice (2005)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The presentation will demonstrate how through alternative methods of digital print production the Centre for Fine Print Research (CFPR) is developing methodologies for digital printing that attempt to move beyond standard reproductive print methods.... Read More about Customising digital printing for fine art practice.

A visual survey of colour on paper and colour changes during changes to light (2003)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The practical application of an artist's colour model as an alternative to CMYK (2003)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This paper presents an alternative view of colour, from the artist's perspective. It highlights problems that are current in inkjet and wideformat printing. And how other print processes, such as (silk)screenprint, can offer answers to developing ink... Read More about The practical application of an artist's colour model as an alternative to CMYK.

Digital printing for artists (2003)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Fading characteristics of dye based and pigment based inks on artists' uncoated and coated printmaking papers (2003)
Book Chapter

The objective for this paper was to present an overview of colour changes or fading, the relationship of ink on paper and using microphotography to illustrate the changes. In consulation with John Purcell Paper, Cranfield Inks and funding through He... Read More about Fading characteristics of dye based and pigment based inks on artists' uncoated and coated printmaking papers.

The application of colour management systems to improve the quality of ink jet printing on fine art paper (2003)
Book Chapter

There have in recent years been improvements in the quality of print achieved using large format inkjet printers with stable pigmented ink sets on fine art inkjet papers coated with an ink receptive layer. Increasingly professional photographers, gr... Read More about The application of colour management systems to improve the quality of ink jet printing on fine art paper.

The impact of paper on ink: From the photomechanical printer's perspective (2001)
Journal Article

This conference presentation was concerned with the substrate and how the print process can affect the visual aesthetic. There is a difference between the user who requires a general consistency of image on any paper substrate and the user who has a... Read More about The impact of paper on ink: From the photomechanical printer's perspective.

Spiral Graph
Physical Artefact

Stereo printed surface pattern, showing the offsetting of the red and turquoise spiral forms. Using red-blue stereo glasses, the black shapes will appear to float above the picture plane.

Exhibited as part of Wallpaper – Artist’s Interior Worlds,... Read More about Spiral Graph.

Ways of making at the London original print fair
Digital Artefact

Blake’s project, Ways of Making, seeks to explore the range of processes at the disposal of an artist, traditional and contemporary. Taking as a theme the image of a primrose growing from a ceramic bowl – inspired by a line from Dylan Thomas – the pr... Read More about Ways of making at the London original print fair.