{"pagetitle":"About the images - Patrick Turner photographer/artist","content":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">A Carbon ink print is a black and white image created with a<br>professional high-resolution inkjet printer, utilizing six shades<br>of carbon-pigment monochromatic inks. The use of carbon inks<br>on paper can be traced to the 1760's with the invention of the<br>Aquatint process. A plate was wiped with ink and an etching<br>press was used to squeeze the plate onto a sheet of paper,<br>which transferred the ink dots to the paper. Today I use an inkjet<br>printer to deliver the ink to the paper. This process can produce<br>tonal subtleties previously associated with the finest platinum<br>prints. The best of these are essentially dotless and continuous<br>tone. Carbon is an extremely stable element, and when applied<br>to fine art rag paper, its archival properties rank among the best<br>of any printmaking process.</p>","type":2,"private":0,"image":"","pubdate":null,"url":"about-the-images","controls":null}