THE DIGITAL PRINT. A Complete Guide to Processes, Identification and Preservation

THE DIGITAL PRINT

Demystifies the complex, rapidly changing, and sometimes confusing world of digital print technologies

This invaluable resource describes the major digital printing processes used by photographers and artists over the past forty years, explaining and illustrating materials and their deterioration, methods of identification, and options for acquiring and preserving digital prints.

A fold-out poster provides a ready reference for identifying specific processes and materials.

Anyone involved in identifying and preserving digital prints – from conservators, curators, archivists and registrars to photographers, artists and printing studios – will want this comprehensive, one-of-a-kind volume.

•The definitive book on printing technologies, materials and print characteristics.
• Categorizes processes – from dot matrix and inkjet to thermal transfer – into print technology families.
• Provides recommendations for storage and gallery labelling.
• Profusely illustrated with photomicrographs and cross sections, and examples of digital prints assembled over the last ten years.

Martin C. Jürgens, a conservator of photographs in private practice in Hamburg, Germany, specializes in the conservation of historical and contemporary photographic materials and digital prints.