Digital BW, The Print

>By making digital negatives with an inkjet printer, and taking them back
>into the traditional wet darkroom, I have made many fine prints on
>air-dried, glossy fiber paper.

>With digital negatives, you have the best of both worlds. You have all of
>the great silver papers that many have come to love, and you have the power
>to modify and manipulate your images in Photoshop in ways that even the old
>darkroom masters could not hope to achieve.

Or is it the worst of both worlds.  All the digital artifacts with the
darkroom smells, non-buffered paper, non-washable gelatin coating, wavy
paper from the water that needs dry mounting, questionable archival quality
without strong toning that turns the print purple, ...

You get the picture.  ;)

Seriously, I went this route once and, aside from temporary marketing
advantages, I think the silver print is or should be considered an
"alternative" process in the same category as the platinum print.

Paul
www.PaulRoark.com