Digital BW, The Print

In a message dated 12/11/2001 10:39:03 AM Eastern Standard Time, 
paul.roark@... writes:

<<  I
 was most interested in was whether the sepia tone helps B&Ws when they are
 hanging close to and in competition with color photos and paintings.  The
 neutral silver prints have always suffered next to color, in my view.  I and
 the others who've talked about this problem think the sepia is working.  It
 gets rid of the "blah gray" impression silver prints can suffer from in such
 situations.  (I still prefer the silver prints in my home.) >>
I have had customers refer to my sepia prints as black and white, but the 
brown ones. If I show both versions, nine times out of ten they but the 
sepia. I guess they can call it black and white, but they like the color. 
George J Kunze