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Re: [Digital BW] The old days were much, much better????

2002-03-28 by lrryr@attbi.com

Dickbo,

What do you mean re-invent ziatype? Ziatypes have such a 
variation in color/contrast etc. depending on what mix 
you start with. What was he up to? Enquiring minds want 
to know.

Of course if you were about to market something 
as 'digital platinum' (a buzz word I've heard bantered 
round these parts) then Carl would certainly be a guy 
whose opinion you might seek out.


Larry
> In addition, Cone is still tinkering with the software and inks to mimic other, 
> even more ARCHAIC processes. At the end of last year, he invited Carl Weese, the 
> nation's recognized expert on everything platinum, to help him reinvent Ziatype, 
> a printing-out process first patented by Captain Giuseppe Pizzighelli in 1887
> 
> Gentlemen! 
> Is America USA about to go into reverse, will Piezo end up printing pin hole 
> images?
> 
> This geezer Pizzighelli, did he invent the Piezo process or perhaps the Pizza? 
> What's the story on this one and where do we go from here and how will it all 
> end?
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