Digital BW, The Print

I'm sorry to be such a spoil sport, but the fact is it is almost impossible to get good quality B&W images from Blurb or any other
print on demand book seller. The way they print is just not set up for B&W. If you think that by soft proofing or altering your images in any way
you can approach the quality of the images you see in "Lenswork" for example, you have delusions of grandeur. This group has spent years
of discussion trying to improve the quality of B&W. The printing process used by the on demand printers is not much better than what was available
when we were trying to print B&W images from a printer with a four color cartridge. If you are satisfied with the quality you can get from these printers,
more power to you.

I'm in the middle of making a book in honor of a 90th birthday. The only way to achieve the quality worthy of this project, is to print all of the images myself,
on my choice of paper and have a bookmaker bind them into a book. The bad part is that by the time I am done I will have spent several hundred dollars.
If I could find a printer that would print books up to my standards, that could be purchased one at time, I would gladly use them.


Gary

baffin@...
www.garyallenbrownphoto.com


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