For more than twenty years Vern has practiced and perfected the exacting fine art of printmaking. Vern is excited to present LightJet 5000 photographic prints. The color fidelity of LightJet prints is far more accurate than any traditionally reproduced images, and LightJet prints hold vibrant color, contrast, depth and sharpness in any size, remaining faithful to Vern's large format originals. Digital scanning and enlarging can reproduce images with such clarity, that every print holds its true photographic values. All devices in the system are profiled individually and integrated into a closed-loop color management system using custom ICC profiles for the scanner, the monitor, and each RGB printer.
The process begins with a Heidelberg Tango 300mb scan of Verns original 4x5 transparencies. Using his digital workstation, Vern composes a unique CD master image file for every print and special care is taken to reproduce only what the lens captured, without enhancing nature. His exacting effort captures all the subtleties of color, tone and density that were envisioned at the time of exposure. Flaws in transparency handling and scratches can be removed, as well as colorcasts from film processing, however genuine color and subjects are not altered. The state-of-the-art images are exposed on Fuji Crystal Archive photographic paper using the Cymbolic Sciences LightJet 5000 digital enlarger. Fuji Crystal Archive paper images will hold their museum display quality for 60-71 years, more than four times longer than Kodak's current paper (16-20 years).
Vern currently creates Fujix Pictrography 4000 prints from the same master image files. These smaller sized prints, up to 12x18 inches, are an affordable and popular option for Vern's fine art images. Fujix Pictrography prints are exposed onto Fuji photographic paper, and are produced by an authentic silver halide photographic process involving exposure by color lasers. These photographs hold their high archival display quality for 20 years. Incredible Fuji innovation, using an even greater resolution (400 DPI) than LightJet (304.8 DPI), has produced the widest color spectrum presently available in the industry.
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PRINT COMPARISONS |
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LIGHTJET
PRINTS |
FUJIX
PRINTS |
| PROCESS |
Tri-color RGB exposure of traditional photographic silver halide
paper and processed in old-style wet chemistry |
Color laser exposure of light sensitive emulsion with dye
transfer to special Fuji receiver papers. These are made in-house here in
Bishop. |
| SIZE |
Up to 48 x 60 |
Up to 12 x 16 |
| IMAGE SCANS |
Heidelberg Tango
300MB scans of our original 4x5 transparencies
at 2500 DPI using custom ICC profiles |
Heidelberg Tango 300MB scans of our original 4x5
transparencies at 2500 DPI using custom ICC profiles |
| PRINTER / ENLARGER |
Cymbolic Sciences Lightjet 5000 at
Calypso using custom ICC
printing profiles to guarantee an exact match to our monitor and my
visualization at the time of exposure |
Fujix Pictrography 4000 here in our studio using custom ICC
printing profiles to guarantee an exact match to our monitor and my
visualization at the time of exposure |
| ARCHIVAL LIFE |
70 to 160 years before noticeable fading occurs. This is by far
the longest lifespan on any current photographic material. |
30 to 40 years before noticeable fading |
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