Digital BW, The Print

Peter,

Does it really matter that you can see dots in an inkjet print? Most
paintings are made with brushes, and you can usually see the brush strokes.
That doesn't seem to put people off spending $millions on paintings. Of
course you can see dots in an inkjet print if you want to; same as you can
see grain in a chemical print if you want to. But you can also just see the
image if you want to; the brain is very clever at ignoring unwanted details.

Bob Frost.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Peter Nelson" <peter@...>
>
> Everyone who doesn't have something wrong with their eyesight sees
> dots.   One of the major PROPONENTS of black-only printing, Nicholas
> Hartmann, happily admits he sees the dots, but says he likes them
> because they remind him of film grain.
>
> The problem is that they DON'T remind anyone, who knows that film
> grain looks like, of grain, because the dots DON'T RESEMBLE GRAIN.