Hangout 15th April and printing issues

Was good to catch up with others this morning. We heard about Allan and Alan’s essays. I must remember to try and dig out notes to send both and have asked another fellow student for his notes to send one of the Alan’s as they might be relevant.

I discussed the email I’d received from the assessment team, triggered by completing CS A4 and prompting me to put in for assessment. Looking at the deadlines, it would be nuts to go for the July assessment. I could do it at a push under normal circumstances but no way at the moment – every step I make feels incremental but tiny. The lack of headspace is a challenge for all of us, I imagine. And I’m still figuring out how the ai fits with the work so I have put November deadlines in my diary for now and will need to get everything ready for September, which feels much more doable.

I also discussed the plan to reach for a kind of practice book for BOW  – perhaps it won’t have the foldouts for example and will be done as inexpensively as possible. Perhaps it will be a handmade concoction like below,

a bigger, slightly more adept version of this:

BOW: A3 dummy booklet

And inspired by this:

Melissa Lazuka – Song of the Cicadas

‘Song of the Cicadas, Melissa Lazuka, Copyright 2018

Artist: Melissa Lazuka (born Cleveland, OH, resides Chardon, Ohio)

Self-Published, Ohio

Without essays, pagination or captions

Text: English

Hardcover book, leporello binding, photographs & paper ephemera, hand-made, limited edition 1/1 in a series of 25, USA’

(Stockdale, 2019 – http://www.photobookjournal.com)

I would then focus on creating a small print run with someone like SPBH for SYP and raising the cash to do so through Kickstarter.

This seems to be the way I am heading – I have already started collating the development work into a large scrapbook and could base an actual book on experiments with placing in this. The scrapbook is a place to store things that might not make it to the final and also put various options and copies together.

I think it is still important to have a website to accompany the work where I can share moving image versions and perhaps more text.

Dong this has prompted to me to get to the bottom of colour printing on the Canon Pro-100S which it turns out is notorious for getting colour right.

I have downloaded ICC profiles then had to download the Adobe Colour Printer Utility which is not solving my problems so far – in fact, it’s making more! I could make entirely using book printer mistakes (quite like the idea, actually….)

I’ve uses the Printer Utilty but it doesn’t seem ideal and even though I indicated the whole image should be on the paper, it printed a detail only – so I guess I need to resize the file I want to print. I’ll get there but the speed at which I do might remain glacial…. (there are constant interruptions which doesn’t help)