Ken Allen

Mass Film Cleaning

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Rewashing moldy/dirty film can dramatically affect the quality of digital scanning. First, the film is digitized, and the current conditions are documented to create a record of the item before cleaning. Second, we evaluate the film to confirm it is safe for this cleaning method. High-value, unidentifiable films or older materials will not be washed … Read more

Adobe Lightroom Classic Tips for Printing Large

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Lightroom Classic (LR) is an excellent tool for editing photos. But Lightroom does not know if you intend to publish your images to digital platforms or make a large exhibit print for display in real life. With every Lightroom Classic update, the need for Photoshop edits decreases, and many of you can prepare your files … Read more

GRANTS

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Printing, training, and materials for artist/photographer to make digital prints, $3,125 value. Brooklyn PrintWorks is now accepting entries for our first Spring 2021 digital printing grant. This is a materials, machine time, and digital print training grant with a value of $3,125 in digital printing and half day of training by experienced digital printers.  Grants will … Read more

Pricing

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Pigment Ink Prints This is the finest form of digital printing available today. It provides superb color rendition, 100-plus year print permanence and can be used on a wide choice of papers. Pigment Ink Prints are very versatile and can produce images that are hard with strong contrast, soft and velvety, or can manifest a … Read more

Scan Quality

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Today’s modern sensors in high-end cameras offer a part of a powerful scanning solution. They have a high dynamic range needed to do justice to a Kodachrome’s density range and the resolution to image the fine details. Using the highest resolution sensors you can meet many of today’s applications, but the camera has to be … Read more

Paper Guide

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Papers continue to evolve for pigment ink printing. New developments provide greater image quality, durability, and character. This can be a problem if an artist wants to create the same print several years after printing the original edition. We can help an artist make as close a match as possible, but as printers, we are … Read more