Limitations of Photography
Typical reproduction techniques require that the original be captured in miniature. That is to say the painting or drawing is reduced in size, through a lens, to a piece of film, then scanned and blown back up to the original size. Even in the case of digital photography, the image is reduced down to a 2 or 3 inch area on a CCD chip. Again, the art is miniaturized. This step is where the most degradation of the original takes place, regardless of the physical resolution of the scanner or chip, not to mention the resolving power of the lens. Therefore, no matter what printer is used—Iris; Roland; Epson; etc. —the quality of the original has already been compromised. Our methods avoid this completely by not employing photographic technology. The original is scanned directly at full size with no media (film) interpretation whatsoever. File sizes of 1.3 gigabytes are not uncommon.
“Conventional techniques can be compared to holding hands with gloves on—soft, expensive gloves—but gloves nonetheless. Our method is like holding hands skin to skin.”
Brian Clifford
Master Printer