Digital BW, The Print

James, Tom,

>Maybe you're onto something here.  Perhaps it's not the method of
>application, but what is being applied that really could carry the
>connotation we would like.  

Nice way to say it.


>But, unless you're using an ink set that is essentially 'pure' 
>carbon, is it misleading?  The term 'pigment' is probably just 
>as generic as carbon, but 'pigment print' doesn't seem to have 
>the same ring as 'carbon print'.  

"Pigment" also would include color prints, and "inkjet" would further
include dye ink prints - just not specific enough.  We need something
elegant and distinct that clearly means "high quality black and
white". I think it's pretty safe that serious BW printers are using
carbon-based ink sets of one sort or another (whether RIP prints with
color ink dots is included is debatable of course, but that's another
subject).  "Carbon Ink Print"  just seems like it would convey "high
quality black and white" to anyone who reads it.  Doesn't seem to be
any other term that does it all as nicely as that one.


> In the end, however, some relatively short way to rather precisely
describe the ink and substrate in terms that a buyer would know that
these are long-lived, carefully made prints is probably what is
needed.

Definitely.


Regards,
Clayton


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