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Wednesday
Jan252012

Antarctica - The Pallet of Colors

It seems that Andy's post on his trip to Antarctica was so popular that we wanted to share another perspective from Joshua Holko - a Moab Master who was also on the expedition.

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Wednesday
Jan182012

Returning from Antarctica

Our technical guru and nature photographer extraordinaire, Andy Biggs, recently returned from a trip to the bottom of the earth. He writes about his experience on his blog, which we reposted here with his permission.

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Friday
Jan132012

We're heading to New Orleans

We're packing up the crates and trekking down to the Big Easy this weekend for the annual ImagingUSA show.  

The spotlight in our booth will be focused on the new Slickrock Metallic Pearl. If you've been pondering whether to give this paper a test-drive, then swing by our booth #316 to pick up your free sample.

We'll also be showing (and sampling) the Museo range of fine art inkjet papers, including their 100% cotton Artist Cards. 

Hope to see you this weekend.

Monday
Jan092012

Making your own portfolio with Entrada

Thursday
Jan052012

A pivotal year for digital printing

Our friends down under at Giclee Media drafted a rather poignant newsletter today that we'd like to share with the rest of the Moab community:

Many of us began by dipping silver halide papers into foul smelling chemicals under deep orange safe lights and became forever hooked on the photographic process.

Today the 5th January 2012, it was reported in The Wall Street Journal that Kodak may file for bankruptcy.

The name Kodak, coined by George Eastman, its founder, almost defined photography for 130 years. Australians such as myself, who grew up in the Northern Melbourne suburbs knew many fathers who worked at the giant Kodak factory in Coburg making Kodacolour, film and printing papers.

This rather sad omen for the possible ultimate death of silver based processing should have been expected after the collapse of Agfa. This is a message to all photographers that the only viable printed image is that from a pigment inkjet printer.

Our Moab Lasal Exhibition Luster 300, typifies the outright quality that inkjet can produce being much heavier and with a wider colour gamut than common silver halide papers. Colour Silver based papers are typically around the 230-250 gsm mark, much lighter than high end inkjet papers and therefore there can still be a cost advantage in printing by the old methods - if their manufactures remain viable.


So 2012 will become a pivotal year for digital printing. Not because of any fundamentally new inventions but because it may define the time period by which the majority of professional printing is done on a wide format or desktop inkjet device.