the next one we ll show how Dorothy employed the advantages of digital print ing to create a unique artist book. And finally we ll look at how Karin worked with an out-of-state client and art con sultant to develop a custom image for an installation. FINE ART AND THE FLATBED Nearly a year ago, I began planning on an art exhibition called Natural Or der, which opened in November, 2007, at Walker Fine Art in Denver. For the exhibit I envisioned using white ink to expand on work I d done on UV-curing flatbed printers over the past two years. I visited Ability Plastics, in Justice, Ill., to use the company s Durst Rho Pictor UV-curing flatbed printer, equipped with white ink. I worked with the firm s owner, Mike Nuzzo, who said the project provided an opportunity to learn and experience the finer side of flatbed digital print ing, adding that Printing fine art on the flatbed is to digital printing what a symphony orchestra is to music. Because printing art requires a num ber of special time consuming proce dures, like assembling tiled images at the location, I arranged a daily fee with Abil ity rather than payment by the square foot. This arrangement allowed me to take whatever time was needed to align substrates, test colors and set densities to optimize each image. I spent four months creating the images and making substrates for each Use FAST #158February 2008 n Digital graphics n 31