Do it yourself 38 Photography News | Issue 68 | photographynews.co.uk Get instant prints when you need them with DIY photo printing Fotospeed Legacy Gloss 325 Buyers’ Guide
When printing, not only do you want to make sure you have the best photo paper for your image, but you want to make sure the colours you’re printing are exactly the colours you expect them to be. Fotospeed, the UK’s premier photographic paper brand offers complimentary custom and generic ICC paper profiles. integrity from capture through to print. By implementing ICC profiling at the printing stage of the process, coupled with calibration and profiling of your monitor you can ensure that your colour is carried with total accuracy. All devices capable of displaying/ outputting colour do so using their own interpretation. Therefore, they can all be different. Have you ever been into a TV showroom and seen a bank of the same TV showing the same programme but each one displaying the colour slightly differently? The same is true for inkjet printers and monitors. This individual interpretation is the reason you (quite likely) don’t get what you see on screen represented on your paper output. A profile is a correction/adjustment file which understands how the output device (screen or printer) is interpreting the colours and adjusts them to meet the ICC standard. Generic profiles are a perfect, quick, simple option for giving the user a profile which they can use with their printer, ink and paper combination to give a good feel of how an image will look on a paper – perfect for trying out test packs. A generic profile will never be Implementing colour management ensures that your colour maintains its
as accurate as a bespoke ICC Profile as whilst it will have been created for the same printer, paper and ink combination, it is not your specific printer. You can download generic profiles free from the support section of the Fotospeed website. Bespoke profiles are built in the same way as a generic profile but with one major difference. They are built using the information from your specific printer ink and paper combination and are therefore tailored specifically for your set-up. Bespoke profiles are free for all Fotospeed papers. Print in confidence and try Fotospeed’s newest paper: Legacy Gloss 325. Legacy Gloss 325 is a 100% cotton fine art paper, with an unglazed gloss surface, high D-Max, and wide colour gamut, making it the paper of choice for both colour and black & white prints. When used in conjunction with pigment inks, Legacy Gloss 325 ensures a print life of more than 85 years. Award-winning professional UK landscape photographer Antony Spencer says, “Legacy Gloss 325 is a standout paper from the Fotospeed range. It oozes quality and is particularly well suited to my monochrome images; especially the images with a little more contrast.” Fotospeed offers one of the most comprehensive range of inkjet papers on the market. If you are unsure as to which paper best suits your requirements, check out the test papers and swatches are available at fotospeed.com
Have you ever thought about printing your own images? Or maybe you used to but haven’t done so for a while? Printing your own images allows you to see the results instantly, and with so many
paper options on the market, for chemical and inkjet printing, you’re really spoiled for choice. Check out our selection of papers to help you get started on your printing journey.
Darkroompapers
There are few prints that can compare to a beautiful, black & white silver halide print. This traditional form of printing has re- established itself as photographers return to film and head back into the darkroom. While some film photographers choose to scan and inkjet print their negatives there are many who still prefer to experience their image appear in a tray of developer. The enjoyment and satisfaction of the process being second only to the quality of the print. Darkroom printing is as much a part of the creative process as capturing the image in camera. While digital photographers turn to Photoshop and Lightroom, printers use techniques such as dodging and burning while the image is being exposed on to the paper to create their final result.
For darkroom printers there is a superb amount of choice when it comes to picking a paper. Black & white papers are often the most used for home and college darkroom set-ups as they are the easiest to print and widely available with Ilford offering the greatest choice and quality. This includes a choice of base (resin coated, fibre, cotton rag), grade (fixed grade or multigrade), tone (cooltone, neutral, warmtone) and surface (glossy, pearl, matt, semi-matt, satin). Ilford darkroom papers also come in a huge range of sizes so check out ilfordphoto.com for options. To find out more about picking the perfect black & white darkroom paper visit ilfordphoto.com/pick-the-perfect-paper/
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