Product: Fine Art Gallery Catalog

Role: Ink Formulation, Color Management, Print Making

Photographer Joel Meyerowitz is widely known for his pioneering use of color at a time when only black and white was considered fine art. In 2006, as he was putting together an exhibit titled "Modern Color, Vintage Prints" for the Edwynn Houk Gallery in New York, he contacted HP Labs to see if we could assist in producing a limited production run of a high quality gallery catalog. Because of my expertise in formulating light cyan, light magenta and gray inks for photo-specialty applications on the HP Indigo digital press, I was naturally assigned to this project and worked directly with Joel to bring this catalog to reality. 

Digital files and matching proofs were sent to me, and I proceeded to create custom color profiles and tone curves for the HP Indigo 5000 digital press using a 7-ink CMYKcm plus spot gray process. While color measurement devices go a long way in ensuring color consistency, the final judge is still the human eye, and final tweaks are usually what turn average prints into standouts. The final production catalogs were gorgeous and received high praise from Joel himself.