Digital BW, The Print

There's no reason to believe me. You can find out for yourself. Do the 
work - find someone to print your images in several different ways. Some 
with grayscale inks, some with color inks. Look at them in various 
lighting. Make your own decision.

This of course limits you to what is on the market today.
--
Bruce Watson


Clarence Walker wrote:

> Bruce,
> I was afraid that was what you were talking about. However, to me it seems
> more a factor of marketing by the manufacturers than anything else. I say
> this after years within the printer division of IBM. With the rapidly
> growing numbers of people in digital photography and an equally rapidly
> growing number now seeking to produce fine art/commercial quality 
> black and
> white through digital, there is no reason why the manufacturers could not
> produce an affordable printer with wider format as well as the ability to
> produce high quality black and white with the whole gray scale. Maybe they
> need to hear from many of us that there IS a demand. According to the 
> specs
> on this list alone there are over 7600 members. Even a representative
> submission of requests from a percentage of that number would get some
> attention. Say, starting now?
>
> Clarence W. Walker,  
> Creative Expression Photography
> <http://www.creativeexpressiononline.com/>
> http://www.creativeexpressiononline.com
> Commercial, fine-art, and stock
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