Famous photographers join HP Indigo digital printing: Let images bloom colorful vitality
The Big Dipper Image Center is the center of professional image output for the early introduction of the HP Indigo digital printing system in Beijing. Many famous photographers and enthusiasts have come here to produce beautiful collections of photography. On the display cabinet of the Big Dippers Photo Gallery, the famous photographer Zhu Xianmin’s photo collection “Soviet Union 1988†and the famous photographer Luo Gengqian’s photo collection “Faster, Higher, Stronger†were also displayed, as well as more than 10 other famous ones. Photographer's portfolio. These photographic collections are beautifully framed, and the color and black and white works of photography are all richly layered and well-textured. According to the staff of the Big Dippers Photo Agency, these collections are all printed on the HP Indigo digital printing system.
As we all know, even if it is a traditional printing method, it is difficult to show the characteristics of black and white photographic works, because the phenomenon of color cast will occur when there is slight inadvertence, and Zhu Xianmin’s “Soviet Union 1988†is printed digitally. Black and white photography collection. When the staff of the Big Dipper picked up the “Soviet Union 1988†in front of Zhu Xianmin, the veteran photographer who was extremely demanding in image expression could not stand still: I did not expect HP Indigo to have such good image photography work. Expressiveness.
Luo Gengqian, a photographer who enjoys great fame in the sports photography world, printed a collection of sports photography entitled “Faster, Higher, and Stronger†at the Big Dipper Image Club. It can be seen from this photographic concentration that HP Indigo is wider than the traditional printing color gamut, and it vividly reproduces the faster, higher, and stronger Olympic spirit displayed by our athletes in sports events at home and abroad. Luo Gengqian said that for such an exquisite collection of photos, he has to collect a set of gifts in addition to his friends.
Zhao Hui, a former photographer from the United States, had been in touch with HP Indigo long ago and printed some of his works through HP Indigo. In the large-scale photographic art work with the theme of “Chinese Storiesâ€, many sets of photos were printed by HP Indigo. From these works, it can be seen that HP Indigo accurately restores the skin color of the characters and the beautiful colors of the national costumes, allowing a unique national image to be perfectly represented by HP Indigo.
After reading a beautiful photo album printed by the HP Indigo digital printing system, the author can not help but sigh: This advanced and novel digital printing format is completely comparable to traditional offset printing, and due to the diversity of media and the diversity of mounting formats, Its printing effect is also more personalized, and it can better show the photographer's creative intentions. HP Indigo digital printing provides a good opportunity for photographers to better display themselves and promote their works. Photographers need only focus on photography, and they have no worries about the output of photography sets.
HP Indigo experts in digital printing image highlights: Small print printing highlights advantages
In order to further understand the advantages of digital printing in image output prices and short-run printing, the author participated in a digital printing image symposium held on August 23, 2007 at the Big Dippers Photo Club and listened to experts in various fields of the imaging field on digital printing. And suggestions.
At the symposium, the person in charge of the Beidou Star Photo Gallery briefed everyone on their transformation from traditional output to digital output, and provided examples of the convenience, personalization, media diversification, and significant price advantages of digital image output methods. For example, compared with traditional printing, digital printing has reduced the plate-making process and greatly shortened the printing cycle. This has provided great convenience to photographers who are in urgent need of printing and photography sets. In addition, compared with the silver salt method, the digital printing can print the front and back of the output media, and can select special media such as rice paper, textured paper, special paper, etc., and be more diversified in the binding mode, and print the same copy. The photo albums can print more pages digitally and make the binding even more beautiful. The person in charge also mentioned that the digital image output business of the photo agency came into being in the high-end image market.
While bringing excellent output quality to photographers, HP Indigo digital printing also offers significant cost advantages. Hu Hua, the design director of the Big Dipper Image Club, calculated a fine line for the photographers present: In the case of small batch printing, a 60-page hardcover photo album with a size of 210x210mm or 210x285mm was printed with HP Indigo. 458 yuan (excluding design fees); traditional printing plants generally will not accept orders under 1,000 copies, even if small printers barely print more than 1,000 small-volume businesses, plus the cost of the film With the cost of plate making, the total price will be astronomical compared to digital printing. It can be seen that in the case of small batch printing under several hundred volumes, digital printing has a very obvious price advantage compared with traditional printing.
As a guest of the forum, Wen Danqing, editor-in-chief of China Photography magazine, said that he had had direct contact with HP Indigo digital printing long ago. He is also very interested in this advanced digital printing format. Let more photography friends understand this advanced image output method. He said: “The personalized printing of HP Indigo left a deep impression on me. This way has brought great convenience to photographers in printing their own photo collections.â€
At the symposium, Chen Guangjun, who is a century-old image gallery operator, said that he was greatly amazed by HP Indigo's outstanding performance in black and white photo printing. The HP Indigo output has a smooth black-and-white transition and natural color expression. He also mentioned that many photographers introduce themselves to galleries and generally take pictures of them one-by-one. They are not very professional; if photographers carry beautiful collections of photographs printed with HP Indigo, they will receive them. Do more with less.
Zhao Hui, a famous commercial photographer, also stated that the output of HP Indigo can be comparable to the quality of offset printing, and that this short-term printing of variable data is very convenient and affordable in the case of a low-volume print, and it can also express its unique creativity. .
After the symposium, the person in charge of the Big Dipper happily told the author that in order to allow more photography friends to better understand this advanced form of digital printing, to experience the output production of digital video photography collections in person, under the strong support of HP Indigo, The Big Dippers Photo Agency and Guangzhou Congratulations Digital Professional Image Exporting Agency will provide preferential activities for everyone from October onwards. Photographers can add their own unique personalities to photography and experience the fun of design creativity in digital printing. The author also hopes that through such activities, more photographers and enthusiasts will have the opportunity to experience HP Indigo digital printing, better display their own photographic works and promote it.