Digital BW, The Print

> Sometimes, as artists and printmakers, I think we are just too damn picky!
> 
> Jim Davis
> http://www.visual-artists.com

I don't know - I started my art dabbling in the early seventies and I
remember that no *true* artist would ever consider a CMYK offset print to be
suitable for art.  Silkscreen and Lithography on fine art paper yes.  Fiber
backed B&W paper yes, resin no.    Cibachrome - well maybe someday, if it
turns out to last and you can get it to look more like air dried glossy.
But plain old vanilla CMYK was a cheapo thing you did for catalogs and
magazines, not serious work -- except for a small art movement lead by a few
New York art types that made mass production and lack of impermanence the
statement of the art.  So fussiness sure isn't a new phenomenon.

For me - I just like to be picky and fussy 'cause that's my nature and I
don't need or even want art to be a significant source of my income so I can
engage in that luxury. Heck, I probably ought to just paint - but that is so
low tech don't you know.  Whatever turns your crank and/or pays the bills.
:-)

Dan