Digital BW, The Print

For better or for worse, we printers are the only ones who care about this
stuff. Do buyers care what kind of enlarger you use to make silver prints?
Only if they're printers too.

In the end, your prints will still be inkjets (a rose by any other name...),
and until we don't blush when we hear an admirer whisper "they're not
silver, they're just inkjets", overly clever names will only make us feel
sluts, and ashamed. Our problem isn't only how the public feels about our
process, it's also how we feel about it.

First let's just get some shows, then figure out how to bamboozle the masses
with great copy writing. If we put half the time we spend naming our prints
into finding dealers who are willing to represent the work, we'd be calling
our prints "money"! ;-)

Todd

> Nij, Splendid posting!
> 
> I wish I had a Turbo Paint Jet 7000 installed with PiezoBW Carbon Total
> Pigment Inkset.  
> 
> Naming question is a good one.  Too bad the Epson company didn't start naming
> their printers like they do their cars...now that would be interesting...
> 
> "I have a Black Swan Inkdrip printer....what do you have?"
> 
> "A Squid Ink Model 2."
> 
> "Me? A Fugu Puffer Printer!!"
> 
> Smiles everyone..
> 
> Steadman

> I agree entirely! And apart from that... NO-ONE would be using this whole
> technology if someone had called it an 'inkdrip printer'! Not even 'turbo
> inkdrip' would have worked...
> 
> Similarly, maybe LASER printers would not have gone so far had they been
> called 'Static printers'?
> 
> But what if inkjet printers had instead been called 'paintjet' or 'artjet'
> or 'piezojet' (i.e. dereferencing the technology or the ink, and instead
> focussing on the result... or the technology). Would we be dealing with
> different customer reactions now?
> 
> How much does a name influence customers???
> 
> Nij
> 
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: SKID Photography [mailto:skid@...]
>> 
>> But inkjets' inks are under applied with pressure (hence the term
>> inkJET) albeit, tiny pressure, but hey, it's
>> a tiny ink droplet (not even considered a 'drop').  The
>> electrical charge to the printhead causes to the ink
>> to discharge from the nozzle.  That is not the same as a 'drip'.