Category Archives: Printing and Printing Processes

Various printing processes.

Ink-jet dreams and realities

Posted on December 16, 2017 by Brian Lawler

Sorry, dear readers, for my long absence. I returned from Germany to a full schedule of classes that required me to work five days a week (I only worked two days while in Germany), and had to manage a full … Continue reading →

Posted in Printing and Printing Processes, Technology | Tagged Brian Lawler, Excelagraphic, Heidelberg, Hewlett-Packard PageWide, ink-jet printing, Memjet, PrimeFire, Xante | Leave a comment

Repatriation of the Blognosticator

Posted on August 16, 2017 by Brian Lawler

After spending five months in Germany, teaching, learning, and exploring the region, we have returned to the U.S.A. It was a wonderful experience, one that I would repeat anytime if I could. During this time I was an employee of … Continue reading →

Posted in Adventures, History, Panoramic Photography, People, Photography, Printing and Printing Processes, Technology, Typography | Tagged Blognosticator, Brian Lawler, Germany, Gutenberg, Heidelberg, Hochschule Munchen, Munich, teaching in Germany | Leave a comment

Photographing the portrait-in-stone

Posted on July 29, 2017 by Brian Lawler

In April, my students and I visited the Landesamt für Digitalisierung Breitband und Vermessung in Munich (Read that story here). In English, this is the state office of digitization, broadband and surveying. Among the things they do is to manage … Continue reading →

Posted in Art, Education, History, Photography, Printing and Printing Processes | Tagged Alois Senefelder, Blognosticator, Brian Lawler, Landsamt für Digitalisierung und Vermessung, LDBV, litho stone, lithography, Munich, Senefelder, Solnhofen | Leave a comment

Bavaria has castles! I have photos.

Posted on July 24, 2017 by Brian Lawler

In my home county in California we have a famous castle, one built by newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst in the early 20th century. Called Hearst Castle, it is a tourist mecca, visited annually by several million people. The castle … Continue reading →

Posted in Adventures, Panoramic Photography, Photography, Photoshop techniques, Printing and Printing Processes | Tagged Bavaria, Bavarian castles, Brian Lawler, castles, GigaPan, King Ludwig II, Munich, Neuschwanstein, Schloss Neuschwanstein | Leave a comment

Papierherstellung in Deutschland

Posted on July 9, 2017 by Brian Lawler

On Thursday we took a tour of the Gmund Paper factory in Gmund, about one hour south of Munich. Gmund is the maker of some of the finest papers in the world. In their shipping area I saw pallets marked … Continue reading →

Posted in Adventures, Art, Bookbinding, History, Printing and Printing Processes, Technology | Tagged Brian Lawler, Fourdrinier, German paper making, Gmund paper, Gmund Paper Company, paper making, paper making machine | 4 Comments

Alois was here

Posted on May 23, 2017 by Brian Lawler

Several of my students joined me and my colleague Prof. Martin Delp today for a tour of the Landsampt für Digitalisierung, Breitband und Vermessung, the Bavarian office for digitization and surveying. Here, the government creates maps, collects and distributes digital geographical … Continue reading →

Posted in Adventures, Art, History, Printing and Printing Processes, Scanning, Technology | Tagged Alois Senefelder, Brian Lawler, Hochschule Munchen, imaging with lithography, lithography, Martin Delp, printing processes, Solnhofen limestone, stone lithography | Leave a comment

Ink is a terrible thing to waste

Posted on May 17, 2017 by Brian Lawler

I’m teaching this semester in Munich, Germany, at the Hochschule München, or more correctly, Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften München. It’s just a few blocks from the city center on Tram route 20. We have about 20,000 students on several campuses. … Continue reading →

Posted in Color Management, Photography, Printing and Printing Processes, Technology | Tagged Brian Lawler, clogged ink-jet nozzles, color management, Epson 9900, Epson ink-jet, Hochschule Munchen, idel ink-jet printer | 4 Comments

The Bishop Peak Portrait Project – complete!

Posted on May 15, 2017 by Brian Lawler

Thank you all for your patience while I built the Bishop Peak Portrait Project, a series of thousands of photos of San Luis Obispo’s most prominent mountain. I started the project in November, 2015 with the construction of a weatherproof … Continue reading →

Posted in Art, Photography, Photoshop techniques, Printing and Printing Processes | Tagged Bishop Peak, Bishop Peak Portrait Project, Brewster, Brian Lawler, Cal Poly, Derek Gragson, Eric Johnson, Phil Bailey, San Luis Obispo, time-lapse project | Leave a comment

Van Gogh’s Père Tanguy in perspective

Posted on May 5, 2017 by Brian Lawler

Museums often have no-photography rules, depending on their policy about allowing visitors to take photos, or the legal arrangements they have with art owners, copyright holders and other things that go beyond my pay grade. In the Galleria dell’Accademia in Florence, … Continue reading →

Posted in Art, History, Photography, Photoshop techniques, Printing and Printing Processes | Tagged Brian Lawler, fine art photography, off-axis photography, photographing paintings, Rodin Museum, Van Gogh | Leave a comment

Der Druck ist nicht tot

Posted on April 21, 2017 by Brian Lawler

At least in Germany it’s not. As I stepped off the train in Heidelberg last Monday afternoon an American asked me for directions. At this I was not very helpful because he and I had been in Heidelberg exactly the … Continue reading →

Posted in Adventures, New technology, People, Printing and Printing Processes, Technology | Tagged Brian Lawler, Clarence Penge, Germany, Heidelberg, offset press, printing press, Ralph Schönfeld, Schnellpressenfabrik, Wiesloch | 2 Comments