Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Charles Bandes 
<byronbulb@y...>" <byronbulb@y...> wrote:

>  Mind you, from a couple feet away the dot patterns become more or 
less a nonissue regardless. 

I agree.  I can only see them closer than 18 inches.   But
lots of photographers and other do examine prints closely.
Let me use an analogy.  I collect original stone plate 
lithographs from the late 19th and early 20th century.  From
a distance I can't tell the different between these originals
and well-done photo-offset prints and since MOST of the
time I only admire my lithographs from across the room I
could have saved thousands of dollars by buying reproductions.
But SOMETIMES I like to look closely.

Anyway, there may be other issues with black-only - see my
new post on that.

BTW, as I mentioned earlier, I actually do quite a bit of
black only in other contexts.  For instance, I often print on 
watercolor (REAL watercolor, not Epson) paper or pastel or
charcoal paper for various art projects.  On those papers the 
dots spread and blend and you can't see them at all even under
magnification.   But the spreading gives them a soft look,
which IN THAT CONTEXT I like.