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Facing the facts about fine art
In total, 160 large format fine art photo prints were created as part of Belgian photographer, Stephan Vanfleteren's exposition 'Portret 1989 – 2009', taking place in Ghent, Belgium, until end of December. The photographer selected the Mutoh Zephyr UV printer to reproduce his striking portraits.
Mutoh Europe’s Zephyr is a CMYK 165cm professional UV inkjet printer, suitable for roll-to-roll and rigid board printing up to a thickness of 20mm. For rigid printing, media transport tables can be placed at the back and in front of the machine.
The printer utilises Mutoh proprietary flexible UV inks, formulated to allow printing on a range of rigid substrates. The system is designed to produce top quality prints for close viewing distances and can operate at speeds of between 3.5 and 7.5m2/h for this kind of job. Prints for medium viewing distances can be produced at speeds between 15 and 20 m2/h. For larger viewing distances, print speeds up to 30 m2/h can be reached.
In fact, Vanfleteren’s images were printed onto wide format Vikupor Digital White foam board panels in sizes varying from 0.43 by 0.43m up to 1.2 by 1.5m.
The Vikupor Digital White foam board panels were chosen for their surprisingly good imitation of fine art photo paper, with a similar white point and surface structure.
To finish the Zephyr fine art prints, the new MACtac LUV3890 UV laminating film was used to protect the images against incoming light. As a result, the fine art prints did not have to be covered by glass. This provides visitors to the exposition the benefit of looking at the photographs without the bother of reflections, independent of the viewing angle.
A Youtube movie is now available on-line demonstrating how the wide format portraits were created for the Stephan Vanfleteren portrait exposition.
