Digital BW, The Print

Snip>>Mark Tucker writes:
> I just feel like if/when someone asks me how the prints were 
> > made, my body will immediately begin to shrivel up, and I won't 
> > stand straight, and I'll look down at the floor, and start to pace 
> > around, and I'll mumble "..

These are an exciting new look in Photographic prints. No other print process 
can replicate the look of these specialty carbon pigment inks on Rag papers. 
Its because of this look that I choose to make the prints this way. A cross 
between Platinum and Silver, a revolutionary print media all its own. A 
beauty that cannot be achieved by other methods. Prints are  Handmade with 
specialty engineered carbon pigment inks for longest display life. I would 
tend to avoid terms like digital and inkjet, but if comes up I can say 
digital gives me a finer transfer of information from the negative to the 
paper! more true interpretation of the image and a finer print as a bonus! 
This technique gives me prints I can live with rather than submitting a 
lesser quality silver print, and that makes me feel bad.
These are the kinds of thoughts I would be thinking. If the viewer, gallery 
curator or whom ever senses a lack of confidence from the photographer it 
certainly won't help.
Forge ahead and be confident. As a photographer/artist I'm interested in 
producing the best prints I'm capable of, and use the latest technology has 
to offer.
After all that, I can say my ink has been rejected and silver accepted even 
when the curator admitted the ink prints where better. But hey things change 
fast, the same dealer requested some, and sold some ink last month. Customer 
liked the look better after seeing my quadtone piezo book that I left behind.
Steve Meyers





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