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Re: The Name Issue and Other Ramblings

2001-10-08 by Martin Wesley

Helene,

You are absolutely right but this is the same exact battle 
photography has been up against since Kodak released the first 
Brownie. The situation really isn't any different.

Martin

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., grdglass@a... wrote:
> Yes, and that the guy down the street is able to make injet prints 
too.  It's 
> a technology that is available to the masses and, thereby, loses 
its 
> mystique.  
> 
> Helene
> 
> 
> > I'd say two issues, that people have seen their dotty inkjet 
prints fade in 
> > a couple of years, and 
> > that there is a perception that the mechanized process allows one 
to run 
> > out tens of thousands of 
> > prints like an offset press. It doesn't matter that they can't 
see rosettes 
> > of offset screens, the 
> > opinion is formed before they look at the image itself.
> > 
> 
> 
> 
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