Xavier Antin
Saturday, 15 January 2011
Work from Just in Time, or A Short History of Production and Printing at Home.
“Xavier Antin is for sure the unsung king of creative desktop printing. In “Just in Time, or A Short History of Production” he aligned up four generation of desktop printers to produce, all in one go, a 44-page full color book in an edition of 100 copies. A stencil machine from 1880 was first printing the magenta. The spirit duplicator (1923) provided the cyan. The black was made with a laser printer from 1969 and, last but not least, the yellow was printed with a vintage ink jet printer (1976). I would expect an enormous difference in terms of alignment as the paper handling is different with every machine, but the samples on the website just looks great.
Another very nice book by Xavier Antin is “Printing at Home”, which is “A series of nine archaic ink jet printers hacking meant to disturb or disrupt the printing process, documented as an overly didactic printing manual.”” – via Mrs. Deane