Piezography Special Edition is a unique ink set specially blended by Jon Cone for split-tones that displays crisp neutral highlights which meld into selenium which then meld into Carbon shadows with a clear black. This is the most beautiful ink set Piezography has ever released to the public.
This ink set was influenced heavily by Cone's printmaking for photographer Gregory Colbert and his Ashes and Snow exhibitions (the Nomadic Museum) in Santa Barbara, Tokyo, and Mexico City. The inks that Cone developed for Colbert are extremely complex and they numbered 11 individual formulations. However, there were three subtle splits in the Ashes and Snow prints made for the exhibitions. The Colbert prints were seen by more than 10 million people. Cone wanted to commemorate his three year effort with something which might have a universal appeal.
Special Edition inks warm as they get darker in tone. Many people describe the finished results as looking like platinum/palladium printing.
The Special Edition blend works on the principle that all Piezography inks are intermixable. Cone has always thought that photographers would eventually wish to make their own "blend"; secret or not. As long as the shades are not cross-mixed, any shade can be mixed with the same corresponding shade of another ink set.
Special Edition recipe long been a secret is simple and you are welcome to begin making your own blends. We can provide you with empty nalgen bottles for your own mixes if you like. But, this one is quite nice on its own.
Special Edition inks recipe as provided in the set:
Shade 1 = Piezography Neutral shade 1 black for matte or Piezography MPS Warm Neutral shade 1 for glossy
Shade 2 = Carbon shade 2
Shade 3 = 75% Sepia Shade 3 and 25% Selenium Shade 3
Shade 4 = 50% Sepia Shade 4 and 50% Selenium Shade 4
Shade 5 = Selenium shade 5
Shade 6 = Neutral shade 6
Shade 7 = Neutral shade 7
This is a split toning ink that is blended to make the splits as subtle and gradual as possible.
"The most beautiful print color since Agfa Brovira, perfect screen match, tack sharp, deep and detailed shadows... Spectacular product."
Craig Wallace Dale www.craigdale.com
This ink set is designed to be used with the Piezography media profiles and QuadTone RIP. Please see the Instructions tab for a full explanation of its use.
You can expect to reach a dMax of 1.65 on matte papers such as JonCone Studio Type2 and Hahnemuhle Photo Rag. When glossy printing according to our directions you can reach dMax levels as high as 2.80. Piezography Glossy produces a finish in which you will not be able to tell where the inks end and the paper begins. When used as directed, it produces a uniform surface without any gloss differential nor bronzing.
