Digital BW, The Print

I can address this a bit since I print for others, and of course, myself.
There are no hard and fast reasons. There are and always have been
artists with no interest in printing, and never print their own work.
The other extreme is that mind set of the artist being the only one
capable of printing their own work, assuming they have that craft
down. I can understand both and personally lean toward the latter.
We had an open house here last year and handed off gobbs of info on
what it takes to do this stuff. Again, the reactions were varied. Some
went away with all that info and successfully got their own systems
and skills up and going. Others, after seeing everything involved,
were not the least bit interested and said they'd just as soon bring
everything to us, since so much effort here goes into keeping things
nailed every day.
Some people need bigger prints than they can do at home, some people
are not in a position to dedicate a printer to B&W, some people need a
printer set up with a special inkset on a special paper for a project,
etc.. Many reasons.

It's worth seeing what really goes on in a place like this. If you
have the oportunity to visit one, you should. Hopefully our guild will
have another free open house soon.
John Dean and others would have good points about al this as well.

Tyler
www.custom-digital.com