Printing with Piezography® Pro inks on handmade Washi paper

George Wiedenhofer challenged us to produce two portfolios of prints on Echizen Washi handmade by the living Master Ichibei Iwano IX. The paper is gorgeous. It is also slightly irregularly shaped making it impossible to feed directly into the printer. The paper making process created a surface that is also slightly fuzzy. There is no coating on the paper to help with density and dMax.

We used the Piezography Pro carbon based monochromatic ink set (which we invented) and George selected a split tone of cool highlights and warm shadows so that the prints have a platinum/palladium quality.

In order to ensure registration of the images in the middle of the sheets and to guarantee feeding into the printer so that the deckled edges would not strike the printhead, we used backing sheets. The paper was held down with large Post-it tape.

Prior to printing we created an uncoated Piezography profile for the Echizen Washi paper. We also produced an ICC profile through which we are able to match our carbon prints to George's display. No surprises nor disappointments that way.

The Piezography Pro ink set is controlled with the QuadTone RIP printer driver. However, we invented our ow profiling system. shop.inkjetmall.com sells our inks and software for many different Epson printer models. In this video we converted an Epson Stylus Pro 9900 to the 11 ink monochromatic system.

To learn more about Cone Editions Press and how you can have us print your images: https://cone-editions.com/

To learn more about the Piezography ink systems for your printer: https://piezography.com/

To learn more about George Wiedenhofer's work: https://www.gwphotographs.com/