Digital BW, The Print

Peter Nelson wrote;

>Jay, I hope the last few days have answered your earlier question 
>about the choice of a BW printing method.  

>Just in that short time we've had someone here report that Lyson 
>exhibits metamerism, Fotonic (by Lyson) has metamerism, and 
>Piezography or Cone or United Airlines or somebody is in Chapter 11.  
>Or not.  Meanwhile people here are getting all excited about a new 
>printer that may, or may not, have a gray or light black ink, and 
>may, or may not, need one because it has such a small droplet size 
>that it may, or may not, exhibit metamerism.  If you're still looking 
>for "simple" it may, or may not, be starting to occur to you that 
>you've come to the wrong place to find it.

Thank you Peter . . . this had me laughing out loud. What with the snips at "what is silver doing here?", to disgust at my contempt for "fall on your knees and praise digital" . . . this was a relaxing gut-buster.

I have more free time now, so I am getting back into doing my own printing. Even in today's hi-speed? digi-world, you either shoot, or you are a darkroom tech . . . you can't really do both, at least not shoot commercially, which I am doing a lot less of now. SO . . . I picked up two small Epsons the other day to try out various techniques in printing, BO and FI inksets from MIS for a start. The reasoning being with the smaller printers is that if I screw things up OR don't like what I see, it is not a major expense. It is funny, in silver printing when you wanted to change colour or tone, it was a few dollars for different toner, paper, and/or developer . . . not the potentially hundreds that it costs with inkjet . . . not to mention some possibly scrapped hardware . . . I always thought progress was just that, progress . . . guess I was wrong ;- ))

At any rate, the reason for the great stress relieving laugh was exactly as you say. All I have read in the last few hundred posts has been "are they? or are they not really bankrupt? . . . only their hairdresser knows for sure", "this is clogged, that is clogged, now they are both clogged . . . now the entire thing is dead!", to "this curve, that curve, neither works, so lets curve this way, that way . . . dancing til dawn with those voluptuous curves" . . . to Andre crying out in the night,"please don't let silver die!"

I have learned a lot, and will keep on learning from all of you . . . but I thought I was going to give up being a mechanic years ago when I could finally afford to buy a real car . . . guess I was wrong . . . again.

enjoy your day!
Paul Aparycki





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