Digital BW, The Print

Gary,

The procedure you are using for that 90th birthday present is what I followed a couple of years ago. I do some work for a local architect, who also serves on our community's library board. The board was holding a fund-raising auction of self-published books, and the proviso was that only one copy of each book would be available. Most people used on-line services and worked in color.

When I do photos for this architect and her National Register applications, I use an Epson 1800 and the 3 MK inkset pioneered here by Paul. She decided on about 18 images from my portfolio and I printed each one on some Premier Art FineArt paper. We are fortunate here in Billings, MT to have an old-time bindery where the owner restores old family Bibles and historic books. The equipment is fascinating, much of it close to one hundred years old. He's a young guy who bought the business from his parents and does beautiful work. He did my book for $90 and the evening of the auction it went for $700! (nothing to me and the architect of course!)

And I appreciate your mention of Lenswork. That's a standard I would love to emulate but I know Brooks Jensen and his crew have taken book printing to an art in itself. When I look at my photo books from the 70's I realize how far the art of printing has come.

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Gary Brown" <baffin@...> wrote:
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> 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.
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> Gary
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> baffin@...
> www.garyallenbrownphoto.com
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