Digital printers are fundamental tools used in our design process and they are supposed to make exact copies. Printing anything several times should result in it looking exactly the same. However, it never quite works out that way especially with inkjet printers. The color settings, alignment and resolutions can have a great impact on the printing outcomes, thus making the design outcome somewhat unpredictable.
Week 1
In the first week, I played around with the printer’s setting, off-sets, subverting the functions, as well as the printing process.
Week 2
The second week I explored further with digital printing in layers, including changing the values in resolution, offsets, and colors. My expectations of how the printing outcome would be and what it actually has become clashes even more. When I switch the colors of the color layers, the entire vibe of the image changes. The change in resolutions and offsets results have yielded frozen moments of each layers, which recorded the printing process.
Week 3
The final week I took the advise of documenting every printing process and experiment how each layers can manipulate the look of the final printing outcome.