Humans will hand render any image like a digital printer
thehumanprinter is a group of people who will hand-render pictures for you in the style of a digital printer. "Throughout the printing process, thehumanprinter assumes the role of the machine and is therefore controlled and restricted by the process of using CMYK halftones created on the computer." Each of the human printers has his/her own unique characteristics. For example, one is "fast and inaccurate" while another is "quick and efficient, yellow tends to be faint." You can even choose black and white, full color, or spot color prints. Fascinating art project. thehumanprinter (Thanks, Mathias Crawford!)
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yes, but is it soul-less?
That looks very difficult, I think I'd need to update my drivers.
Will it work on my mac?
My wrist hurts just thinking about it.
Really neat results.
Artist (and friend) Stefan Gunn does very similar work with hand-painting halftones, albeit not emphasizing photo-reproduction. Here's a link to his portfolio:
http://stefangunn.weebly.com/index.html
Take that, Andy!
you know, the reason I bought the printer was so I didn't have to do this by hand.
in all seriousness though, great concept. I am wondering, from the picture shown above, are they printing yellow over black? (in CYMK, black is last)
Do they charge a lot of money for the ink?
What they do is take the picture into Photoshop, turn it into a CMYK halftone, and print out each of the halftone screens, in black.
Then they lay a piece of tracing paper on each halftone, in turn, and apply dots of ink where indicated. The tracing paper is the finished product.
If you go to the very first page of the website, there's a movie, where you can see someone doing this, while a very angry printer continues to sound like a can of bees.
This is very interesting, because it's obviously not nearly so painstaking and slow as it might seem.
I still want to buy the finished product, but cannot figure out how.
Lichtenstein 2.0
Do they add the little yellow fingerprinting dots?
yellow doesn't always go last in real ink-and-rollers printing. i know i've swapped colors around when i know the cyan will go on a little heavy or the yellow might look too muddy. sometimes i print black first, if i don't want to blow out the shadows.