Digital BW, The Print

Duane,

>Maybe those should be retitled as carbon-gelatin prints since inks 
>have been used as a base for the process in the past also. The term 
>silver-gelatine seems to be current. That way all could be satisfied.
>Ho. Ho. Ho. Probably not.

Brave soul.  Try that and we might be mourning your premature demise
<g>.  About four years ago a huge online flame war raged for some
weeks, during which Carbon Print folks expressed great outrage because
inkjet folks were "hijacking" their art form by calling their work
"Carbon Prints".  What emerged after the dust settled was a general
agreement not to use "Carbon Print", and several alternative terms
emerged including "Carbon Ink print" and "Carbon Pigment Print", among
others.  I wrote about this, including some arguments in favor of
Carbon Ink Print, in the "What To Call Them" article on the web link
below.  That's why I was glad to see Tom Mallone using it.

A lot of people just coming in to inkjet printing aren't aware of this
history, so the subject pops up now and then.

Regards,
Clayton


Info on black and white digital printing at    
http://www.cjcom.net/digiprnarts.htm