Digital BW, The Print

The chatter about matching monitor and print is analagous to
discussions of refinements to buggy whips or high button shoes. The
skillsets won't have significant value within two (2) years. 

Printers are becoming self-profiling (HP) and cheap monitors with
simple cardboard baffles are better today than were expensive monitors
two years ago. Inexpensive photo-oriented monitors will be precisely
self calibrating by 2006. Goodbye Macbeth. 

I'm thinking now about Ansel Adams' most famous photograph:
Dramatically underexposed, it was saved by an old time chemical
intensification workaround. The workaround, part of Ansel's closed
loop system, produced literally millions of dollars in profits to the
various galleries who peddled and re-peddled the prints. 

It's worth considering how digitial printmaking contrasts with
photography. What's similar, what's different? Which side of the brain
does which? Do artists work with closed loops or open loops?



 





 Soft 
> proofing will speed up the printing process but like Bruce says do not 
> expect too much of it so speeding up the real proof is a good thing too.
> 
> BTW, this must be the thread with the most text ever. Very few
practical 
> solutions.
> 
> Ernst
> //