Digital BW, The Print

On 8/7/05 6:06 PM, "woodyspedden" <elwood@...> typed:

> 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
> 
> 
That¹s great Woody!! But we know you did a great job on your all black
prints but we don¹t know what kind of job you did on your all color prints
other than I guess you said they were muddy!!
I do know that all black printing gives one a quicker and easier result.
As far as doing into the objectivity of ones spousal support system we don¹t
dare go there 1 :)

To me when you have a machine which has 8 or whatever printing heads and you
use only 1 of them right off you¹re not doing what the machine ³wants to
do².  As Feynman might approach it He would want all 8 of a shuttles rockets
to go off even though one of them he might have real close feelings about..

Too summon up a skued metaphor if one compares a muddy platinum print
against a clean looking Gum Bichromate with Crayola hand accents it¹s the
Gum Crayola which is going to win out.  Because the Gum Crayola was done
right.  It was clean.  A muddy print is a muddy print. Who likes mud? Even
if I¹ts platinum mud!
I'll take Clean Crayola over Platinum Mud anyday!
:)



Mark Rabiner
Photography
Portland Oregon
http://rabinergroup.com/





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