Digital BW, The Print

The print exchange has come a long way in the last 3 1/2 years. The 
first one was almost all pretty local and nearly all scanned film 
printed with home made curves and quads. We've obviously seen a lot 
of developements in printer, inks, RIPS (thanks Roy), new papers and 
lots of new digital cameras.

I just shipped the July 05 exchange...3 years ago, Martin Wesley told 
me not to stress if the prints were late...he said there was no such 
thing as a print exchange that shipped "on time." Thanks for the 
advice Martin...in 3 1/2 years only a couple have literally been "on 
time" and it's only recently that I have gotten over the stress of 
being "late"...that's what retirement will do for you <VBG>.

The diversity we have seen is incredible...this month's exchange, for 
example has 3 of the most dead neutral prints I have ever seen and 4 
dramatically toned ones...not even 2 similar workflows and real 
diversity of participation (the real value of our internet 
community)...prints from California (4), Tennesse, New York, Oregon, 
Alaska, Washington, Virginia, India, Norway, UK, and Belgium!

Thanks to all of you who participate...and welcome to those of you 
yet to give it a try. It's a real treat to see all this great work 
every month.

cheers,

Tom O'Connell