Digital BW, The Print

JIMBO/All- 
I too have very much enjoyed this B&W bunny trail into self-publishing. I have a PROSE & PHOTO book parked "way back" in Quark 4 and I had no idea the source outlets had grown since I last checked into it five years ago. I have been in the reprographics color proofing trade for 38 years (primarily agency packaging) - and we still do much of our work "the old way" and the more comfortable realm of CMYK/VECTOR so moving into the digital RGB/RASTER has been quite the experience. We were initially outfitted with EPSONs for our B&W/COLOR giclees but have since shifted over to the HP-Z3200 and it is really quite an advance. It won't mean much to this particular group but we have really been quite shocked at how we have been able to profile the Pantone colors accurately with very few misses. In the past - we were lucky if we could hit 60% matches on Pantones - now we are in the 90% range. I will be DEFINITELY researching all the self-publishing links you have listed - if there are more - please post up a link to me.

Dean Daniels
The Color Guys, Inc.

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "mrjimbo" <mrjimbo@...> wrote:
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> Not sure but maybe were missing something here.. Gary's position was actually just fine.... no perfect.... for him.. It's clear that he is an artist and thus is trying to control the viewing vehicle for his work .. That is his job... and I think he's doing a great job at that.. What I think might be going on is that for Gary the book is a continuation of his personal expression of his Art form.. We need to respect that ....I know I certainly do.. So in truth Gary is at a different place  or level then I am.. And in truth neither places are wrong.. For me the books that I visualize coming from a place like Blurb represent something different then Gary's needs.. My purpose is different. My intent is different.. So for me I'm ok with what is in fact a lesser item.. 
> The same argument could be going on between Originals , Giclee's and the Litho.. I know several artists that do no repro's .. only originals..  
> As far as how long all this stuff will really last.. I doubt anyone on any of these groups can really answer that today.. Their are just to many variable involved. I mean you can put it in dark storage or have it displayed.. The variables are limitless. 
> So doing a book Gary's way or as Paul has mentioned is really great.. and they certainly have their place and purpose.. Paul's effort raised 700 bucks!!!!  I also feel that, assuming a product can be gotten from Blurb that meets the artists vision for what their after. Well that's ok too. Probably won't raise that 700 bucks however.. maybe not the right widget for the job..
> Again I'll say this has really been a great series of posts..
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> jimbo
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>   Sent: Monday, December 13, 2010 8:15 AM
>   Subject: [Digital BW] Re: Blurb and B&W
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