Digital BW, The Print

Or, do we need to step way back and remember this IS art and subject
to personal interpretation of what is important and what is not.
Should there be any rules at all, much less "standards"?

This is starting to remind me of "perfect photos" of test targets. 

Bob Michaels

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Clayton Jones"
<cj@...> wrote:
> Reading this, I had a thought that perhaps we are now in the early
> stages of ink prints going mainstream and finally becoming accepted by
> galleries, museums, shows, etc, but that the operators of these venues
> may not know enough about the technology yet (like we do who are using
> it) to have established standards of what is acceptable, or what the
> difference is between a good and a poor print (in terms of dither
> banding, micro banding, coloration, posterization, etc - the things
> that we deal with on a regular basis).
> 
> In this case, I wonder if the operator of the venue was aware of the
> banding, and if so did he/she see it as a defect and decide to show
> the work anyway, or maybe accepted it as something normal for this
> type of print?  As for the artist, I wonder if he/she made the prints
> or farmed them out, and was he/she aware of the banding, and if so,
> what sort of thought processes went into giving a passing grade to them.
> 
> Is there a need for some sort of ISO-type industry standards group to
> define and publish technical standards?
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Clayton
> 
> 
> Info on black and white digital printing at    
> http://www.cjcom.net/digiprnarts.htm
>