The Digital Print

Description

This invaluable resource demystifies the complex, rapidly changing, and sometimes confusing world of digital print technologies. It describes the major digital printing processes used by photographers and artists over the past forty years, explaining and illustrating materials and their deterioration, methods of identification, and options for acquiring and preserving digital prints. A removable poster provides a ready reference for identifying specific processes and materials. Anyone involved in identifying and preserving digital prints from conservators, curators, archivists and registrars to photographers, artists and printing studios will welcome this comprehensive, one-of-a-kind volume.

CONTENTS:

Part I: Understanding Digital Prints

What is a Digital Print?

Component Materials of Digital Prints

Part II: Printing Processes

Early Computer Output

Inkjet Technologies

Electrostatic Processes

Photographic Processes

Thermography

Related Processes

Part III: Identification

Identifying Digital Prints

Process Identification Summaries

Part IV: Preservation

Factors Influencing Image Stability and Print

Durability

Testing for Permanence

General Recommendations for Acquisition, Handling, Storage and Display

Recommendations for Individual Processes