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Dr. Nicholas
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Professional Resume of Nicholas M. Hellmuth
Personal Information
Residence:
ST. Louis, MO.
E-mail:
abpcib@r.postjobfree.com
Education:
BA, cum laude, Harvard, 1967;
MA Brown University 1969,
PhD Karl-Franzens-Universit t, Graz, Austria (art history), 1986.
Projects, Grants, Research Experience :
1965, 12 months, excavator and photographer, Tikal Project, Peten, Guatemala, University
of Pennsylvania.
1969 to present (continuing), founder and President of the Foundation for Latin American
Anthropological Research (FLAAR), a research and educational institute devoted to advanced digital
imaging in art history, archaeology, and photography of tropical flora and fauna.
1970-1975, Director, Proyecto Arqueologico Yaxha; responsible for preserving the area around the
substantial Maya ruins and aiding in developing the Parque Nacional Yaxha-Sacnab.
1971 grant from American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia, for study in Archivo General de Indias,
Seville, Spain, on ethnohistory of Chol and Peten Ytza Maya cultural groups of the 17th century.
On three occasions, 1 yr 1970 + 1 yr 1980 + 5 yrs 1990 s, honorary research positions at Yale
University (Visiting Fellow, Dept of History of Art twice; then Yale s Peabody Museum of Natural
Sciences, Curatorial Associate), held simultaneously with other then-current positions.
1980, grant from Organization of American States (via Guatemala) for fellowship at Dept of History
of Art, Yale University.
1990 s, five years, Visiting Professor, Dept of Art, Rollins College .
1992-1997, Visiting Professor, Brevard Community College.
1996, Visiting Professor, National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka, Japan (in charge of program at the
museum via Japan s Ministry of Education to prepare program for digitizing and digital storage of the
museum s 35mm slide archive holdings in art and anthropology).
1997, recipient of $100,000 grant from an American foundation to prepare program for digitizing
the photo archive of pre-Columbian art photographed by FLAAR.
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1998, founded the first web site of what has FLAAR at Universidad Francisco Marroquin,
grown into a network of 900 pages over 5 URLs the first course in Latin America on digital
photography at the professional level.
reviewing high end scanning and large format
printing hardware and software, including:
2003, Consultant and lecturer on digital
www.FineArtGicleePrinters.org,
www.wide-format-printers.org, photography, Malta Centre for Restoration,
and www.large-format-printers.org Bighi, Kalkara, University of Malta, six-week
FLAAR web sites are read by over one million semester.
people a year.
2001-May 2008, Visiting Professor, College
1999-2005, Director of the Digital Imaging of Technology, Director, Large Format Digital
Technology Center, at Universidad Francisco Imaging Division (under the Center for Applied
Marroquin, Guatemala City, Guatemala. Technology, Bowling Green State University of
Ohio).
2000-2004, recipient of substantial educational
2004, begins full-time evaluation of UV-cured
grant by Hewlett-Packard large format printer
division, Barcelona, Spain, to promote public wide-format inkjet printers
education in large format printers especially for
2008, Establishes new FLAAR office in St.
the fine art and photography segments of the
large format printer market. Louis, Missouri and initiates an expanded series
of FLAAR Reports on UV-cured wide-format
2001-to 2006, educational subventions from printers.
other large format printer companies such as
2008, continues circumferential rollout
MacDermid ColorSpan. Equipment grants
from CreoScitex, Heidelberg, Calumet Digital photography programs in Guatemala with a
Solutions (Calumet Photographic). private foundation of cultural heritage.
2002, initiated the first full-scale course on 2008-2010 Expands coverage of wide-format
professional digital photography of any state inks, media (substrates and printable materials).
university in the USA. Available over the internet
2009-2010 Initiates evaluation of 3D scanners.
to people in any country and in three languages
(Deutsch, espa ol, and English). Summer 2002,
Languages
I can speak, read, and can give public lectures in Spanish and German in addition to native English.
Can understand Italian, basic Portuguese, and basic French but am otherwise not proficient. With
sufficient incentive I feel capable of learning at least one more language.
Computer & Software Skills:
Macintosh OSX
Microsoft Word
Adobe Photoshop
PowerPoint
FTP, Skype, etc.
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Foreign experience:
I have lived in Switzerland, Austria, Germany, and Latin America most of my life and have lived in Japan
during six months as Visiting Professor plus several two-month visits to Japan on other occasions.
Fund-raising experience:
Considerable experience raising research funds from industry as well as from private benefactors.
Interests:
Digital photography, both landscape, nature, fine art, architectural historical, and archaeological combined
with digital printing of fine art giclee, and public education on large format printers for use by museums,
educators, students and the general public by means of evaluations of hardware, software, inks, and
media. I am interested in working with art historians, archaeologists, museum personnel and students,
especially related with Latin America, to share with them knowledge of digital imaging hardware and
software so that they in turn can study and publicize their national patrimony both to their own people
and to a worldwide audience via reports in PDF format and over the Internet. By having invested time
to learn about digital imaging, it is now possible to better utilize the unprecedented educational resource
represented by the 50,000 photos in the FLAAR archive for students and scholars. I enjoy training the
trainers, as was successfully done in Japan circa 1996, and at the University of Malta in 2003. The
primarily asset I possess via FLAAR is that we have all the high-end digital photography equipment.
Equipment of this sophistication is lacking at 95% of the universities that I have visited. Thus I look forward
to being able to provide training with this equipment to university faculty so that they in turn can add new
material to their course syllabus. Today, with the capability of Distance Learning to reach more countries,
a single university can impact students across larger areas of each continent.
My hobbies include the study of tropical flora and fauna (especially Maya ethno-botany of Guatemala,
Belize, Honduras and Mexico) and learning (and then teaching) new methods to accomplish better
photography of these subjects.
Most of my current research in 2007-2009 and into the future is devoted to experimental methods
of new software, cameras and lenses to create innovative fine art photography .
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Articles:
I Have published over 147 reports in PDF format on digital imaging; available on www.wide-format-
printers.net.
FLAAR has issued reports on Mayan architecture at Santa Rosa Xtampak and 10 reports on the
pre-Columbian ballgame of Mesoamerica.
Special Report: FESPA 2005: Insights into the 2005 FESPA trade show.
Articles in Natural History magazine, mexicon, Americas (Organization of American States).
Overseas Markets: Looking Abroad: Dubai. Digital Graphics, Vol. 10, No. 6, June, pp. 40-43.
In addition, I have been invited to write in the following publications.
Publish (Magazine, Russia)
Publish Magazine, January 2008. pp. 48-53.
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Publish (Magazine, Russia)
Publish Magazine, April 2008 pp. 45-51.
ME Magazine (Middle East)
ME Magazine, Large format printers
evolving the UV way
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FESPA DAILY NEWS
Fespa Daily News, June 6th, 2007.
Fespa Daily News, June 7th, 2007.
Fespa Daily News, June 8th, 2007. Fespa Daily News, June 9th, 2007
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SIP (Germany)
SIP, January 2006. pp 35-40
SIP, January 2006. pp 53-56
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SIP (Germany)
SIP, April 2006. pp 30-35
SIP, July 2006. pp 46-47
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SIP (Germany)
SIP, August 2006. pp 67-70
SIP, February 2007. pp 54-58
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SIP (Germany)
SIP, February 2007. pp 57-61
SIP, May 2007. pp 50-56
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SIP (Germany)
SIP, June 2007. pp 30-35
IPA Magazine
IPA Magazine, January-February 2002. pp 10-12
IPA Magazine, Mayo-Junio 2002. pp 24-26
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Publications:
Monster and Men in Maya Art (coffee table book version of PhD
dissertation), Akademische Druck-und Verlaganstalt, Graz, Austria, 1987.
New History of World Art, Japanese art book, (based on 18
months photography by Nicholas Hellmuth.
Tikal Copan Travel Guide (A general Introduction to Maya Art,
Arquitecture & Archaeology), 1978
Hellmuth Photos in books of other people
1977, The Mysterious Maya of National Geographic
13 photos inside the book of George Stuart and Gene Stuart.
Photos by Nicholas Hellmuth have been used on the front cover of at least two
books on Maya archaeology: one on Tikal,Guatemala, one related to architec-
ture of Campeche, Mexico,Peter Harrison.
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Courses:
I teach art history and archaeology, and completely separately, teach beginning, intermediate, and
advanced digital photography and scanning. I can teach courses in fine art photography and giclee/
decor fine art inkjet printing.
These courses are equally suitable for Continuing Education to interested lay people, including
individuals who might wish to donate to the sponsoring university once they learn about the projects
and potential of FLAAR+the host university.
My interests also include developing these courses for Distance Learning via the Internet, so that
these courses may bring international income into the university where I may be situated.
DP201: Taking Digital Photography to the Next Level
Digital Cameras
SLR 35mm Evaluation Lenses and
Glossary of Digital at the Photokina
Digital Cameras & Review Nikon Filters
Photography Trade Show in
D70 and D100
Germany, 2004
Worthwhile
Evaluation & Sigma SD9 and
Tradeshows
Hybrid Digital
Lens Reduction
Review of the SD10 Foveon
for Digital
Cameras
Factors: Chart
Canon Digital Cameras
Photographers
Rebel
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DP201: Taking Digital Photography to the Next Level
Professional
CCD and CMOS
Pros and Cons of
Results from Practice &
Image Sensors
Digital and Film
Budget-Priced Critique
Photography
Cameras
Composition the
History and
Nature
Aperture and Key to
Timeline of Digital
Photography with
Shutter Speed Prizewinning
Photography
Digital Cameras
Photography
Architectural
Portrait QuickTime
Lighting Digital
Photography
Photography Virtual Reality
Photography
with digital
with 35mm SLR
cameras
Digital Cameras
Shooting on Computer
QuickTime Location with How to Organize Equipment for
Virtual Object Digital Camera an Exhibit of your Digital Imaging
3-D Views Equipment
Own Photographs
Additional
Camera and
Adobe Software for
Computer Memory File Formats for
Photoshop for Digital Imaging
Storing Digital Digital Images
Photographers
Files
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DP201: Taking Digital Photography to the Next Level
Pros and Cons of Evaluation & Taking
Digital Backs for
Digital vs Film Review of the Photographs with
Digital Image
Medium Format
Photography Leaf Valeo 22 a Repro Copy Stand
Resolution
Medium and Cameras
Large Format
Recommended Lighting for
Cameras to Large Format
Evaluation of Equipment for Profitable Portrait
Hold Digital
the Hasselblad H1 Creating a Photography
Medum Format Architectural
Studio
Digital Backs Photography
Panoramic
Hybrid Digital Lighting
Lighting Modifiers Photography with
Cameras to Hold Techniques
Evaluating
for Portrait the BetterLight
Medium Format for Plants &
Cameras for use
Photography System
Digital Backs Flowers
in Museums
Architectural Landscape
Portrait Gray Balance
Nature
Photography
Photography Photography for Professional
Photography with
with Medium and
with Medium with Medium and Digital
Medium and Large
Large Format
Format Systems Large Format Photography
Format Cameras
Cameras Cameras
Portability: Lighting for Shooting
Product
Panoramic
Wich Digital Product On-location with
Photography with
Photography for
Camera is best for Photography Medium and Large
Professional
Digital Cameras
Out on Location?
Format Cameras
Digital Cameras
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DP202-FA/G: Fine Art Photography for Giclee with Medium Format and Large Format Cameras
Resolution
Scanning Flim
Pros and Cons of
What is Fine Art How much DPI
vs. Direct Digital
Digital and Film
Photography? do you need for
Photography
Photography
Inkjet Printing?
Scanning
Scanners Taking Fine Art
Scanning
Medium Format Photographs with
and Scanning Anything and
and 4x5 inch a Reprographic
35mm Everithing
Transparencies Copy Stand
Recommended Cameras to
Discussion
Introduction to
Books on Hold Medium
of the Cruse
Wide Format
Scanners &
Scanner/ Digital Format Digital
Scanners
Camara System Scanning Backs
Lenses for Tri-linear
Large Format Architectural
Scanning Backs
Cameras for
Medium Format Photography with
for Large Format Medium Format
Digital
Digital
Digital Cameras
Digital Photo
Photography
Photography
Panoramic
Landscape
Pros and Cons Landscape
Photography
& Panoramic
Architectural Photography with
Photograohy as with Digital
Medium and Large
Photo with Large
Format Cameras
Format Cameras Gliclee Cameras
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DP202-FA/G: Fine Art Photography for Giclee with Medium Format and Large Format Cameras
Shooting Nature Special Lighting
Commercial
Out on Photography Photography: When for Fine Art
is it Fine Art? Photography
as Giclee
Location
History of
Lighting Fine Art created Rollout
Rollout
Modifiers for with the Photography for
Cameras
assistance of
Fine Art Giclee creating Fine Art
Computer Software Photos of
Photography
Cylindrical Objects
Gray Balance
Portrait Learn, and
Lighting &
for Professional
Photography Improve, your
Reflectors for
Digital Capabillities in
as Fine Art Portrait
Adobe Photoshop
Photography
Photography
Composition Professional
File Formats
Aperture
Software for
The Key to and for Digital Working with RAW
Prizewinning Shutter Speed Images Dile Formats
Photography
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Public lectures:
Have lectured on:
iconography
archaeology
and pre-Columbian architectural
history
in German
English
and Spanish languages.
At museums and universities in:
Have lectured at:
Berkeley
UCLA
Princeton
Columbia, and more universities,
colleges, and more museums than I can remember.
On advanced digital imaging I have lectured in:
Athens, Greece (3-day Cincinnati, Resource Imaging Slovenia, University of Ljubljana,
symposium as featured speaker), Supply Digital flatbed lecture Adriatic Print and Photo Forum,
24-26 March 2006. series, January, 2007. November, 2007.
Amsterdam, FESPA Digital; and GulfPrint Lectures, April 2 to 4, FESPA, Mexico, August 2008
elsewhere in Holland, 2006. 2007. Sign Africa, September, 2008
Dubai, United Arab Emirates IP&I conference and lecture. SGIA, Atlanta, Lecture SPECTRA
(twice, two different years) Past, Present and Future for UV (Dimatix Presentation), October
St. Louis, Missouri History Printers, July 12th, 2007. 2008
Museum, September 7, 2006. Novosibirsk, Russia (2-day FOGRA, Chicago, October, 2008
Chicago, GraphExpo (multiple symposium as featured speaker), FESPA, Asia, November 2008.
times, each year for last three 30-31 August 2007. Orlando, Florida, FASTSIGNS
years, October 2006). SUN, LLC, 1000 Ideas on how to International, USA, January 2009
Mimaki, December 2006. earn on UV Print, August 30 and Zagreb, Sarajevo, Belgrade, IB-
Amsterdam, Sabanci University, 31, 2007. PROCADD lectures, March 2009
December 9, 2006. Graph Expo, UV Printers, Chicago, Illinois, USA, PRINT 09,
Seoul, Korea, UV-curable flatbed September, 2007 September 2009
and roll-to-roll printer (three Mondo della Serigrafia e delle GoA, Miami, February 2010.
different times), January 2007. Tecnologie Correlate, SIOTEC di
Roma, September, 2007.
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Nicholas presenting information on UV-curable printers to eager audiences
at FESPA Mexico.
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Special PowerPoint Presentations for Consulting Opportunities
If you bring Dr Hellmuth to your company as a consultant, there are special presentations available as part
of a consulting fee. You should ask for the PDF on how to arrange for FLAAR to come to your company
offices for consulting.
How to Dramatically Improve Input for Digital Printing
Stereo panoramic 3D Photography,Stacked Focus (to achieve Stunning Depth of Field)
& Full-Spectrum Highlights & Shadows (Stacked Exposures)
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Materials printable with UV curable inkjet flatbed printers: Emphasis on Architectural applications
UV Curable Ink Jet Printers: Benefits and Downsides compared with solvent printers
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Lectured on Mayan Archaeology and Ethnobotany, (Guatemala, Belize and Mexico)
Cacao Lecture, Chocolate & Vanilla: Maya
& Mesoamerica, November 24, 2007.
Cruise Ship, January 2008.
Incense & Sacred Resins of the Maya
The Mythical Water Lily in Maya Art, Rituals
& Diet
Ceiba and Sacred World Trees of the Maya;
Iconography of Incense Burners & Urns that
mimic the Ceiba Tree of Life.
Maya Ethnobotany: Exotic Tropical Fruits &
Unusual Vegetables of Guatemala, Belize, and
Mexico
How (precisely how) did the Maya actually construct their pyramids?
Regional differences in Mayan architecture: Puuc, Rio Bec, Chenes
Tomb of the Jade Jaguar: Royal Burial of the Ruler of Tikal, Guatemala
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Ballgames, Iconograpphy and Ballcourt Architecture of the Maya, Aztec, Mixtec, and Zapotec
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Pyramid Temples & Palaces Arquitectual History of the Pre-Columbian Maya.
San Salvador, III Congreso Centroamericano de Arqueolog a en El Salvador, October 2009.
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Photography Exhibitions
Popol Vuh Museum, Guatemala Rollouts Exhibition:
The exhibit of digital circumferential rollouts was exhibited at universities and museums throughout Guatemala
for about two years. (2001 to 2003. The following chart indicates the locations and dates of exhibitions.
Location Date
Hotel Intercontinental 2001
Museo Popol Vuh July 18th, 2001
Universidad del Istmo September 10th, 2001
Centro Cultural Metropolitano, Palacio Nacional de Correos October 19th, 2001
Universidad Rafael Landivar February 5th, 2002
Banco de Guatemala April 25th, 2002
Palacio Nacional de la Cultura September 5th, 2002
Museo Ixchel (textil exhibit) September 4th to 28th, 2002
Centro de Formacion Cooperacion Espa ola, AECI, March 28th, 2003
Convento de Compa ia de Jesus, Antigua Guatemala
Museo de la Universidad San Carlos April 23th, 2003
Distrito Cultural 4 Grados Norte July 2003
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BGSU, Ohio
Giclee Prints of Guatemala Exhibition: from 9th- 23rd of October, 2004.
Through the Digital Lens is an exhibition of photographic high-resolution giclee prints by Dr. Nicholas
Hellmuth. These images were a reflection on nature and architecture, taken from the beautiful surroundings of
Guatemala.
The function of the exhibit was to show the beauty of high-end digital photography, educate the public
about the existence of these technologies, and to show the range of expression possible with different
camera platforms. In short, while this exhibition has a true beauty in its imagery, it can also function as an
educational tool in regards to the state of the art in digital photography.
These exhibition was at FLAAR s digital imaging facility on campus, located in Bowling Green State University s
Saddlemire Hall on the ground floor.
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FLAAR Reports by Nicholas Hellmuth
FLAAR Reports for Inkjet Paper (Media) and Inks
by Nicholas Hellmuth (2003 - 2010)
FLAAR reports on Color Management
by Nicholas Hellmuth (2003 and 2007)
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FLAAR reports on Color Management
written by FLAAR Staff but initiated and edited by Nicholas Hellmuth (2006)
FLAAR Reports on RIP (Raster Image Processor) software
by Nicholas Hellmuth (2003, 2006 and 2008)
FLAAR Reports on RIP (Raster Image Processor) software
written by FLAAR Staff but initiated and edited by Nicholas Hellmuth (2003 and 2005)
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FLAAR reports on Color Laser Printers
by Nicholas Hellmuth (2004)
FLAAR reports on Surviving with Wide Format Printers
by Nicholas Hellmuth (2004)
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Reports on Scanners
by Nicholas Hellmuth (2004 to 2005)
FLAAR reports on Creo Scanners
written by FLAAR Staff but initiated and edited by Nicholas Hellmuth (2005)
Reports on Textiles
by Nicholas Hellmuth (2005 -2010)
Wide-Format Inkjet Printer
for Textiles
Yuhan-Kimberly
UJET MC2
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FLAAR reports on Wide Format Printers for CAD-GIS
by Nicholas Hellmuth (2003 to 2004)
FLAAR Reports on Wide Format Printers for CAD-GIS
written by FLAAR Staff based on material from Hellmuth and edited by him (2003 to 2004)
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Some FLAAR reports on UV-Curable Ink Flatbed Printers
by Nicholas Hellmuth (2007 to 2010)
Series 1: Introduction to UV-Cured Inkjet Printers.
Series 2: Introduction to UV-Cured Inkjet Printers.
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Series 3: UV Printers Model by Model (Continued)
Hybrid UV: Entry Level.
Hybrid UV: Mid Range.
Flatbed UV: Medium Production.
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Flatbed UV: High End.
Flatbed UV: Specialty. Flatbed UV: Entry Level.
Roll-to-Roll: High End.
Roll-to-Roll: Specialty. Led UV Curing, Cationic Ink.
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Series 4: Site Visit Case Studies
Vutek PressVU 200/600
Site-Visit Case Study
Series 5: UV Printers: Korea
Series 6: UV Printers: Taiwan
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Series 8: Comments on UV Inkjet Printers at Major Trade Shows
Trade Shows 2009
Trade Shows 2007
Trade Shows 2008
Trade Shows 2005-2006
FESPA 06
UV-Cured Flatbed UV-Cured Printers
Printers at SGIA 2005
Trade Show
Exhibited at Milan
VisCom 05
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Series 9: UV-Curable Inkjet Market Analysis & Trends
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FLAAR reports on Solvent Ink Printers
by Nicholas Hellmuth (2003 to 2010)
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FLAAR reports on Wide Format Printers for Signs, Posters and Banners
by Nicholas Hellmuth (2003 to 2005)
FLAAR reports on Fine Art Giclee Printers
written by FLAAR Staff but initiated and edited by Nicholas Hellmuth (2005)
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FLAAR reports on Giclee Printers for fine Art Photography
by Nicholas Hellmuth (2003 to 2008)
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FLAAR reports on Fine Art Photography, by Luis Sacayon, Eduardo Sacay n and Jaime Leonardo
(Photographs by Nicholas Hellmuth) (2007 to 2008)
These digital photography evaluations and learning units are the combined work of Nicholas Hellmuth (doing the
photography, selection of software packages, and project design) and the work of Luis Sacayon, student, who
does the graphic design, does the software editing, and writes up the step by step results. The reports document
that students are fully capable of producing excellent work when a professor is available to guide them.
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FLAAR reports on Wide Format Printers for Fine Art Photographers
by Nicholas Hellmuth (2002 to 2006
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