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Re: [Digital BW] Bill Brandt "carbon prints" Los Angeles

2005-07-20 by john dean

> Wouldn't it have been good for all of us if that press release
> proclaimed in nice proud verbiage that they are inkjet?
> Tyler


Of course, but if you look at the price tag that these things will ultimately have attached to 
them you can understand their nervousness. But, essentially I agree with you a better term 
would be carbon inkjet or carbon digital inkjet print - to distinguish from carbro and 
impermanent inksets, which there are many. The layman can't possibly be expected to sort 
out all the permutations. You know that is interesting, the association with carbro. In many 
ways though what you do Tyler is a historical decendent of carbro. Sure they are done with 
pigments and studio print rip and not a gelatin transer process, and no the longevity 
figures aren't exactly the same, but they are related. And we sure have alot more control 
these days. Now that is what they should have pointed out in that press release as good 
historians, your right. Point out the similarities AND differences of these imaging cousins 
two centuries apart.

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