Award-winning UK photographer ‘follows’ HP to produce large format prints for exhibition

Award-winning photographer Chris Floyd looked to HP for help with his "One Hundred & Forty Characters" project to reproduce his images as large format portraits. Floyd worked with the HP Bracknell-based team who used both the HP Designjet L25500 Printer – which runs aqueous-based HP Latex Inks – and the HP Designjet Z6200 Photo Printer to output the prints.

Inspired by Floyd’s interaction with the photographers, editors and other individuals he follows on Twitter, One Hundred & Forty Characters bridges the gap between traditional relationships and those increasingly formed through online communications.

Floyd subsequently worked with the HP design team on the proofing of the artwork files to prepare the images for printing.

"The images are very stark, saturated black and white prints on white background, which required lots of heavy black ink", he said. "HP were great at being able to bring this out, adjusting the contrast to ensure it was reproduced faithfully in the printed portraits.

According to Floyd, the printed results are exactly what he was hoping for: "I am absolutely thrilled to bits with the fantastic results achieved," he concluded.

Chris Floyd’s One Hundred & Forty Characters www.100fortycharacters.com project will be displayed from 3rd to 17th November at the Host Gallery, 1 Honduras Street, London EC1Y 0TH.