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Comments from an End User
During 2007 I was brought to Vancouver to be a consultant to an investment group that were developing a giclee atelier. They asked
for help on what technology to utilize to scan the original paintings. There are four options:
• Scan transparencies that already exist; scan with drum or really good flatbed (like CreoScitex)
• Take fresh photographs with modern digital technology to escape artifacts from scanning (mainly dust and scratches)
• Use a tri-linear scanning system (BetterLight is the most popular)
• Use a Cruse reprographic scanner (this and the BetterLight are the highest quality), but the workflow is completely different depending on whether you use BetterLight or Cruse. Both are excellent, just the methods of photography and lighting are different.
• Use a medium format digital back (Phase One is what we are working with currently)
• Use a good 35mm digital camera on a copy stand.
Because there are so many choices, I usually prefer to spend several days discussing the pros and cons of every single one of these options . FLAAR has a BetterLight, also a Cruse, also medium format, and naturally also a CreoScitex scanner and a multiple 35mm cameras,
which is why we offer consulting to artists, museums, photographers, and investors who wish to start, or improve, their giclee atelier.
Every day my secretary sends me e-mails of people who write FLAAR to request assistance. Actually they are answered primarily by
providing automatic downloads, but when the photographers, artists, or printshop owners fill out a FLAAR Survey/Inquiry Form, they
are sent to a live human being to be answered. If the Inquiry Form includes questions about giclee or fine art photography, then the
experienced people at Parrot Digigraphic answer the questions personally. If the questions are about UV printers, then a partner that is
a specialist in UV printers provides a personal answer; if the questions is about POP, trade show graphics, GIS, CAD, etc, then we have a
partner in each one of these applications to provide an answer (since I am usually somewhere in the world consulting in person, so it’s
more practical to have a complete team answering the Survey/Inquiry Forms). One of the incoming e-mails I noticed was from Vancouver. Since I was in Vancouver that week, I answered it myself.
The inquirer wanted to figure out whether to buy a Canon or HP printer. This was a time when Epson’s printers were last-year’s technology and when both Canon and HP had each spent a billion dollars improving their ink and printheads. So I went with the reader of the
FLAAR web sites to a printer reseller that sold both Canon and HP.
Here is Nicholas in Vancouver, Canada, with a reader of the FLAAR
Reports who was lucky and happened to e-mail FLAAR from Vancouver
while Nicholas was in town. So he got not only a personal answer, he
got to spend a day with FLAAR inspecting giclee and fine art printers.
Site-visit in the home of a businessman whose hobby is serious digital
photography and printing.