Digital BW, The Print

Well, I doubt anyone is going to give me that choice between prints 
from Strand... so I'll just have to reply with respect to my own 
prints:)  I'm at the point where all I would say is the two prints 
are "different."  A perfectly executed traditional print will 
definitely be better than a quadtone print, BUT most people don't get 
perfectly executed traditional prints every time and then it is 
harder to say one is "better" than the other.  Sometimes a 
traditional print is significantly "easier" to produce than a digital 
print, so really, why should one have more value.  Behind glass a 
good quadtone print is very hard to spot... unless you are 
specifically looking for the difference and frankly, that means you 
are not actually looking at the *photograph*.

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> Mark,
> 
> I'm biased towards silver prints myself but I would  amend "isn't 
> 'photographic' " to read "it isn't a silver print."
> Side by side differences stand out between most any (un-glazed) 
> photographic media and it is usually clear to me which is a 
compromise 
> choice.  Given an original contact print or a gravure ( by someone 
like 
> Strand) - which would you pick?
> 
> AZ
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