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Re: Bill Brandt "carbon prints" Los Angeles

2005-07-28 by john dean

Well if that ain't  19th Century snobbery I don't know what is. We'll simply change the 
language . to:      Italian - Stampa di Carbonio  or  Portuguese - Impressão De Carbono.

 I'm leaning toward  Portuguese. 

John


--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Clayton Jones" <cj@c...> wrote:
> >Wow, I go away for a year, and you guys are still talking about 
> >what to call your prints! 
> 
> Has anyone in the current incarnation of this subject read the "What
> To Call Them?" article at 
> 
>    http://www.cjcom.net/articles/digiprn6.htm
> 
> 
> Among other things, it touches on the (now very old and long died
> away) "carbon print" controversy:
> 
> "The term "Carbon Pigment Print", often used today to describe fine
> art black and white inkjet prints, seems to have evolved out of the
> controversy that sprang up after some inkjet people used the term
> "Carbon Print", and the people working in the old carbon print
> processes took offense that their name was being hijacked."
> 
> This battle raged for months across numerous forums, and when the dust
> finally settled there seemed to be a tacit agreement throughout the
> inkjet community that "carbon print" was off limits, but things like
> "Carbon Pigment Print" and "Carbon Ink Print" are ok.  I guess history
> has to repeat itself.
> 
> BTW, the article makes a case for using "Carbon Ink Print", but I did
> not invent the term.  It was one of several I saw used during The
> Great Carbon Print Debate.
> 
> Regards,
> Clayton
> 
> 
> Info on black and white digital printing at    
> http://www.cjcom.net/digiprnarts.htm

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