A new Piezography Chronicle has been produced on the basics of making a fine Piezography print.
Piezography does not take any particular skill that is not required to make a competent print with an OEM solution. Having said that, not everyone can make a print using the OEM solution in a competent manner. This PDF is “basics” that covers the steps you need to take to begin using Piezography, so that Piezography can begin to support your images with its inherent beauty, smoothness, and superior print qualities.
This PDF covers subjects like scanning, calibration, workflow, usage of QTR – all in a very basic manner that can be instructive to beginners and a great refresher for seasoned users who may have gotten themselves a little off-track.
I plan to follow up and produce expert techniques guides next. But in the meantime, below is the link to the new PDF file:
What it takes to make a fine Piezography print
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Great job! I can’t wait to see more.
Thanks Jon, a much needed review, prompting me to review my Photoshop settings which weren’t exactly correct after a a long gap in the original resetting!
I also just restarted my Piezography 4800 after 7 weeks and it came back to full operating form quickly and perfectly thanks to using your flush cartridges and following the instructions for storage.
I assume from the new instructions that you’ve had a bit of frustration from users who don’t follow the instructions and complain that the system doesn’t work as it should. Humbling to review how capable it is given my more modest printing skills. Have to come to Vt. for some hands on instruction!
The refresher was a result of realizing how much I have been struggling trying to follow along with another software I purchased recently. The guide for it is (perhaps necessarily or perhaps unnecessarily) very complex. As such, there was no easy route to my understanding the manner in which its author had organized the workflow for it. It made me realize how essential a quick guide can be as well as just an overall strategy for use. Getting bogged down in 100 pages of extremely heady material was making me bonkers. I just wanted results!
So, I imagined that because I made K7 so easy to use – my users might not even have read my manual. Or, if they read the QTR manual instead of my manual, or reading my manual some still might not get it. Could be any number of reasons – but it was long overdue….
Of course, Piezography requires QTR download – which comes with a QTR manual that is not compatible with K7 process – and QTR can not put my K7 manual into the download because that would frustrate QTR having to deal with non-Piezography users which might follow my K7 manual instead.
This is the Catch-22 of all time!
Thanks Jon, nice set of instructions – In truth this level of involvement is something my first semester photo students are able to work with – the K6/K7 system is well engineered and can produce good results for anyone who is willing to follow the directions – and much better than “good” for anyone who is willing to put in the effort to really understand and work the medium. Might want to mention the importance of non-destructive editing techniques as part of the path from good to great.