Digital BW, The Print

Everyone

I recently sent a private email to Clayton Jones regarding BO 
printing in which I was highly complimentary of his work.

He suggested that I should send this to the entire forum so that BO 
Printing can be placed in context with other viable methods. So here 
goes:

Clayton

A while back I purchased three of your BO prints and
absolutely loved them. (At the time I wasn't embroiled
in the Black and White Print Forum.)

Once I got involved in the forum I became "concerned"
as people with far more experience and knowledge than
I ranted on about "the dots" and how continuously
toned prints were so much better.

I already had a copy of imageprint, but I purchased a
copy of QTR from Roy and have spent a large amount of
my free time for the past month or so developing
profiles for my most common papers (which quite
frankly is a good mirror of your "great paper chase."

Today I printed a detailed image on all of those
papers using my QTR profiles and also with BO. I then
enlisted my wife and daughters support (independently
of each other) to evaluate the prints with no
knowledge of how they had been created. Both very
quickly picked the BO prints over the toned prints and
by a wide margin.

The ultimate winners for this image were Premier Art
Hot Press High WHite Matte, and the Red River Dourian
Art!

Certainly not that you needed the validation but I for
one just wanted to thank you for the work you have
done; communicating the basis for that work; and for
me providing me with a solid foundation for the
creation of my images.

By the way, both my wife and daughter raved most about
the transparency of the images (read the luminousity
of having the white show through.) To them, and to me,
the continuous toned prints, by comparison, appeared a
little "muddy."

Thanks ever so much

Woody Spedden

I offer this as strictly my opinions.

Thanks for reading
Woody Spedden