Digital BW, The Print

I've just ordered one from their web site http://www.lenswork.com .

Julian
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jerry Olson" <jerryolson@...>
To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2001 6:17 PM
Subject: Re: [Digital BW] Lenswork Magazine


> Anyone know where I could get a copy of an issue of Lenswork Magazine?
>
> Dalton's, Walden's, and Barnes and Noble don't carry it in North Dakota.
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> Jerry
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> editor@... wrote:
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> > > But it's with the 'Fujix' prints that I have a problem, or at the
> > very least, a comment.  I our experience the
> > > Fujix process yields a very poor color print (monochrome or
> > otherwise), with a very limited gamut, and I
> > > consider this to be more photographic than inkjet.
> >
> > I agree. It's only virtue for scanning is that it is more "continuous
> > tone" than a bad injet print. The trick for scanning is to get a
> > close to continuous tone as possible. I must add, however, that I
> > think all of this is going away. Remember all the debate in the 1980s
> > about 9-pin vs 24-pin dot matrix printers? Seems all rather silly now.
> >
> > > And to take you analogy regarding the inkjet operator one step
> > further, I also think the pre press/production
> > > person at a magazine's end (not to say 'LensWork' specifically) is
> > also extremely important, and
> > > unfortunately, at most publications that is 'the weakest link'
> > (again, I am not talking about LensWork...I
> > > have never seen your publication).
> >
> > Again, you are right. This is precisely why we print LensWork on a
> > sheetfed press rather than a web press and why I personally conduct
> > the press checks myself on every issue. As far as I know, we are the
> > only photography magazine that prints on a sheetfed press and I know
> > from talking with the other publishers that they don't press check. A
> > good press operator is worth his/her weight in gold!
> >
> >
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