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Preparing your Piezography Charcoal prints

Piezography Charcoal printing is an achromatic black and white process that offers one of the deepest black densities (Dmax) possible and allows you to obtain a very wide range of grey tones.

You have the possibility to give a tone to your images (neutral, cold, warm, warmer) that you can use on our whole range of supports from classic baryta to Japanese papers. Please note that the natural colour of the paper chosen (white, creamy white, warm white, etc.) will also affect the final result. You will have to choose the tone of the black and white print associated with the natural shade of the paper.

For this, if you are not familiar with or do not wish to use the screen simulation technique with our ICC profiles, we recommend that you prepare your Piezography Charcoal prints using an iterative mode:

• You make a first test print in small format.
• You receive the print and make a judgment of the rendering.
• Once the corrections have been made, you make a new test print and continue in this way until you are satisfied.

Don't forget to keep the history of your corrections (for example by saving a settings layer in Adobe Photoshop) so that you can go back or reproduce the print later and better understand the results obtained.


The four tones offered: Cool, Neutral, Warm, Warmer.

Using our ICC profiles dedicated to Piezography Charcoal

If you are familiar with screen simulation with ICC profiles, we provide you with our ICC profiles dedicated to Piezography Charcoal so that you can preview the final rendering for each paper and each tone.

Important: Our Piezography Charcoal ICC profiles are designed only for previewing the final rendering of your print on your monitor, they are not usable for conversion.

For specific printing in Piezography Charcoal, we have chosen a printing software that performs a linearisation (adjustment of the quantity of ink) that we can adapt precisely to each desired paper/tonality pair.
However, unlike standard colour or black and white printing software, this specific software does not separate the linearisation and characterisation present in an ICC profile.

To simplify, the ICC profile already contains settings from the printing software, if you convert your image with the ICC profile, at the time of printing these settings will be applied a second time to your image with a disappointing result that does not correspond to your screen display.

Preview on your screen with a Piezography Charcoal ICC profile

Your image should be left in its colour space with its original ICC profile or the one of your choice in RGB. The proof simulation function in Adobe Photoshop or Lightroom can be used to preview the final result.
More information on previewing with an ICC profile on our ICC Profiles page Topic: "How to use ICC profiles".Profils ICC
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• Adobe Photoshop: Previewing the conversion with the menu "View / Proofing / Custom" (Softproofing)
• Adobe Lightroom: Previewing the conversion

You can also find information on preparing black and white prints on our page Preparing your black and white prints

Download

You can download the Black and White ICC profiles for Piezo Charcoal printing only from this page.

Each Piezo Charcoal profile is available in 4 tones: Cool Tone, Neutral Tone, Warm Tone or Warmer Tone. Each .zip file contains the 4 tones for one paper..

You are aware of the above mentioned precaution of using it for preview only.

Paper List and ICC Profiles for Charcoal Piezography download

Baryta Hahnemühle 315g	PICTO_Visu_Charbon_NB_Baryta_Hahnemuhle_315g.zip
Kozo blanc Awagami 110g	PICTO_Visu_Charbon_NB_Kozo_Blanc_Awagami_110g.zip
Bamboo Natural Line Hahnemühle 290g	PICTO_Visu_Charbon_NB_Bamboo_Hahnemuhle_290g.zip
Hemp Natural Line Hahnemühle 290g	PICTO_Visu_Charbon_NB_Hemp_Hahnemuhle_290g.zip
Bright White Hahnemühle 310g	PICTO_Visu_Charbon_NB_Bright_White_Hahnemuhle_310g.zip
Museum Etching Hahnemühle 350g	PICTO_Visu_Charbon_NB_Museum_Etching_Hahnemuhle_350g.zip
William Turner Hahnemühle 310g	PICTO_Visu_Charbon_NB_William_Turner_Hahnemuhle_310g.zip
Platine Fibre Infinity Canson 310g	PICTO_Visu_Charbon_NB_Platine_Fibre_Canson_310g.zip
Rag Photographique Infinity Canson 310g	PICTO_Visu_Charbon_NB_Rag_Photographique_Canson_310g.zip
Baryté Matt Infinity Canson 310g	PICTO_Visu_Charbon_NB_Baryte_Matt_Canson_310g.zip
RC Brillant Pigmentaire spécial finition	PICTO_Visu_Charbon_NB_RC_Special_Finition.zip
Photo Rag 308 Hahnemühle 308g	PICTO_Visu_Charbon_NB_Photo_Rag_308g.zip

Nomenclature of ICC profiles Piezo Carbon

Example:
«PICTO_Visu_Charbon_NB_Baryta_Hahn_Photo_Gloss_TN_1.icc» The ICC profiles for Piezo Charcoal start with «PICTO_Visu_Charcoal_NB_....» to indicate its use in preview only.

Then the paper type, the manufacturer's name, the proposed tone and the profile version.
Our example "PICTO_Visu_Charbon_NB_Baryta_Hahn_Photo_Gloss_TN_1.icc" = Baryta Photo Gloss paper from Hahnemühle with a Neutral tone, this is the first version of the profile.

Each ICC Piezo Charcoal profile/paper is available in 4 tones:

• TF = Cool Tone
• TN = Neutral Tone
• TC = Warm Tone
• TPC = Warmer Tone

Details of the ICC profile nomenclature by paper