Digital BW, The Print

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On Apr 10, 2010, at 4:40 PM, "john" <deanwork2003@yahoo.com> wrote:

> one of the reasons you sense a heightened degree of sarcasm on the part of many of us using these large format systems for alternative processes is that Roy Harrington's and Jon Cone's (much earlier) genuine love of this medium and his totally unselfish devotion to upping the standards for black and white inkjet imaging for over a decade (when Epson bw indeed did suck 100%) made the demand for ABW surface in the first place.

This is a bit like health food stores. My vegan friends have difficulty understanding it when I claim that the biggest gift health food stores have given America is that we can now buy tofu and organic produce is the supermarket. I assume you can all appreciate the analogy: yes the early pioneers of B&W gave us prints we will cherish (I have a couple of Tyler's I would be unwilling to part with, and one of Joe Holmes)... But in the long run it's the fact that it is now possible for a wide range of users to make low metamerism, long life black and white prints that is the biggest gift. 

CDT