Digital BW, The Print

> Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2002 04:31:17 -0000
> From: "antonisphoto" <antonisphoto@...>
> Subject: Re:Luminous Landscape 2200 Review
> 
> Apparently, there are  a lot of perfectly succesful, talented photographers
> out 
> there who don't get what bw printing is all about.

Well, I for one would love to know what it's all about then. Let's see--you
can be incredibly talented...you can be incredibly successful...but if you
don't print the way WE print, you have (sniff) lower standards and are
really just a hack. And by the way, so is anyone who likes your work. It's
an interesting, if not exactly traditional, business model.

> I just listened in on a
> presentation by Jeff Shewe who showcased the 2200 and lots of prints of his
> work, bw among others.  They weren't bad, but if that was the only option
> available, I would keep my darkroom. They don't hold a candle to what we are
> talking about here.
> 
> The only thing going for the 2200 is that it offers a one-printer solution
> that 
> does an adequate job of  printing the occasional monochrome portfolio print.
> Very helpful to the photographer who doesn't want to get into the esoterica of
> piezo printing and that second, third and fourth printer - depending on the
> desired hue! 
> Color may be another matter, though.
> 
Hmmm...I suspect that if I had formed my opinions of Piezo, MIS, etc., etc.
based on the first 2 weeks' output of any member of this list, I'd be saying
those systems suck heartily. Say what you will about Reichmann--at least he
is speaking from personally living with and working with the printer,
instead of writing off an entire new system based on a few samples of some
other guy's work.

Until people on this list have given the new system even a fraction of the
effort they spent perfecting their quad/hex work, or seen samples printed by
someone who does "get what B&W printing is all about" in their personal
judgement, it's all just meaningless speculation, isn't it?

Doug
> 
> 
> Antonis