Digital BW, The Print

At 03:47 AM 10/31/03 +0000, you wrote:
> >I think perhaps an attempt to use the term 'carbon pigment
> >print', instead of 'carbon print' would be most appropriate.
> >That way, there's at least a distinction between inkjet prints
> >done with carbon black pigments and traditional carbon prints.
>
>This has already been discussed to death in this and other forums over
>the past two years.  I remember in a thread somewhere, maybe here, a
>consensus that "carbon pigment print" is sufficiently different than
>"carbon print" so as not to be seen as an "infringment" or something.
>I looked in two books on photo history and found only "carbon print".
>I posted a reply to that effect in that forum earlier this evening,
>basically defending the digi folks against the accusation of
>"coopting" the name of an earlier process, that the various names were
>considered and debated, that we are good photographers and we love the
>medium and its history as much as anyone else.
>
>Regards,
>Clayton




>Info on black and white digital printing at
>http://www.cjcom.net/digiprnarts.htm



All,

Inventing misleading or fanciful names for ink jet printing doesn't help 
build confidence in the medium.  It is rather amusing that art dealers are 
so coy about explaining the exact nature of their digital products. It is 
probably a means of keeping the value higher than reproduction prints and 
lower than original prints - fair enough.

A record with the artwork of the exact materials and process used is a good 
professional practice. Archivists can then conserve the work much 
better.  Among artists, we photographers seem to be the most obsessed about 
that.

Most people have very old B/W family prints in good condition and assume 
correctly that B/W "art" prints also last.  B/W ink jet prints may benefit 
from this assumption.
I believe most people have found to their horror that their family color 
photos have faded and will not last more than one generation. Our task of 
educating the consumer about the durability of digital prints may be eased 
somewhat by photo industry efforts to convince them that digital processes 
will outlast conventional color photos.  It is interesting to note that 
color photos can only be conserved by digital copying.

AZ

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