Digital BW, The Print

Carolyn


> I would think that scanning the output from current inkjet printers would be
> superior way to 'evoke' the prints than from printing from the original scan.
> The prints we are all doing are 'objects, if you will, and are *more* than
> just a scan.  We all pick specific inks and papers to get a print to have the
> look and feel that best expresses our visions.  By going directly to 4 color
> magazine production from the scans, the magazine is bypassing all of our
> specific artistic decisions that we make for our final outputs.  What I am
> tying to say is that by scanning from our final inkjet output, the magazine
> would get closer to showing a 'facsimile' of our work than form going directly
> from a scan.

Yes Harvey... well said. For my artistic sensibilities it is not the digital
file but the final print that counts.  For my commercial images it is
definately the digital file! ;-)  Carolyn