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Re: [Digital BW] New to the inkjet printing game...

2002-08-21 by Barry Kelsall

> 1) Does anyone here use digital cameras and output into piezography
> (preferably Cone's inks I'm more interested in...)?

I use an Olympus E-10 output to Piezo on an 1160 using MIS FSN inks.

> 3) What perked your interested in digital black and white printing?

Being able to leverage my experience with Adobe Photoshop

> 4) What made you switch from silver halide based processes to digital?

Endless darkroom test strips & guesswork vs. precise digital tools; plus no
chemical baths!

> 5) Why do die-hard traditionalists object to digital black and white
> prints? Tonality range? Shadow detail blockage? etc. etc.?

Myopic old-paradigm clinging?

> Thanks

your welcome,
-BK

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