Rafal Lukawiecki
8-Dec-2010, 06:30
Dear All,
I am approaching a major milestone in my photographic fine-art career. A catalogue/book will be printed to accompany my first solo exhibition. There are 24 B&W photographs, which all have been toned in selenium. The files for this book are all repros of actual prints, not negative scans. There will be 500 copies printed, 64 pages, 8x10", landscape orientation.
I am going through the pains of making choices regarding the printing process. What seems to have been decided is that it will be done on a relatively new Heidelberg offset press as a duotone, 200-lines, on coated matt-ish paper (it seems to me demi-matt) called Garda MarArt 170g. There will be no varnish layer.
I would like the book reproductions to have a slight plummy note of the selenium toned prints. The person in charge of the printing seems to suggest using a combination of Process Black and a Pantone CoolGray 6C which would produce a rather neutral tone. Alternatively, they were extremely cautiously suggesting Pantone 663C which is a plum colour. It seemed fine to me in Photoshop, but they were unsure of that choice. There is still an option of using tritone.
What I would like to ask you about is any suggestions regarding the choice of a particular Pantone colour that you may have used to create a selenium tone in your book reproductions printed in duotone or tritone offset.
Also, as always, I would appreciate any other suggestions you may have. I apologise if I posted this in the wrong forum...
Thank you, very much, for your kindness.
Rafal
I am approaching a major milestone in my photographic fine-art career. A catalogue/book will be printed to accompany my first solo exhibition. There are 24 B&W photographs, which all have been toned in selenium. The files for this book are all repros of actual prints, not negative scans. There will be 500 copies printed, 64 pages, 8x10", landscape orientation.
I am going through the pains of making choices regarding the printing process. What seems to have been decided is that it will be done on a relatively new Heidelberg offset press as a duotone, 200-lines, on coated matt-ish paper (it seems to me demi-matt) called Garda MarArt 170g. There will be no varnish layer.
I would like the book reproductions to have a slight plummy note of the selenium toned prints. The person in charge of the printing seems to suggest using a combination of Process Black and a Pantone CoolGray 6C which would produce a rather neutral tone. Alternatively, they were extremely cautiously suggesting Pantone 663C which is a plum colour. It seemed fine to me in Photoshop, but they were unsure of that choice. There is still an option of using tritone.
What I would like to ask you about is any suggestions regarding the choice of a particular Pantone colour that you may have used to create a selenium tone in your book reproductions printed in duotone or tritone offset.
Also, as always, I would appreciate any other suggestions you may have. I apologise if I posted this in the wrong forum...
Thank you, very much, for your kindness.
Rafal