Digital BW, The Print

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Paul Roark" <paul.roark@...>
To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Friday, October 31, 2003 11:23 PM
Subject: RE: [Digital BW] Digital B&W dissing


> Carbon's use in imaging slightly pre-dates this.  Carbon black
is the
> primary pigment in the Paleolithic horses from the
Chauvet-Pont-d'Arc cave
> in southeast France (over 30,000 years old).
> (See http://webexhibits.org/pigments/intro/early.html)
>
> So, the next time someone asks you about the archival life of
your carbon
> pigment prints ...  ;-)
>
> Paul
> http://www.PaulRoark.com

There's some evidence that they squirted the ink with blowpipes
and masked the print with their hands. The industry is aware of
those early roots of inkjet printing and of its French origin.
Lyson's "Cave Paints" and Giclee for example. It wouldn't
surprise me if those stone age tribes knew the piezo-electric
effects of some stones as well so it is surprising that it took
30 milleniums before inkjet became what it is now.

Paul, Isn't that cave not replicated above the ground with a kind
of Kodak flexible colour print emulsion (analogue) at the walls
about 15 years ago because the paintings couldn't resist the
higher humidity and light that was the result of the increased
tourist visits. Must have some documentation somewhere on that.
Before the cave was discovered the conservation condition must
have been better than Wilhelm's conditions. :-)

Ernst