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Re: [Digital BW] Re: HP new 8-ink printer

2003-09-04 by Jeff Magidson

If I have learned anything in my 3 years of intense exploration of 
digital printmaking, it is to not trust any one persons evaluation of 
any product. Although I find such evaluations interesting I have been 
disappointed far too many times! I don't even trust manufactures sample 
prints let alone someone's scanned prints on the web. The only way I 
can really evaluate what a new printer / ink / paper is all about it to 
print several of my own images with the new product and carefully 
evaluate the results. Unlike traditional wet darkroom prints, digital 
printing tends to be very image dependent. Meaning... Some images hide 
potential printing process problems while other images tend to brings 
these shortcomings to the surface. Such as banding, metamerism, poor 
tonal transitions. la la la.

-Jeff

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