Digital BW, The Print

Anyone who has ever worked with watercolors, even the finest ones such
as Windor Newton, knows that you can look at the pigments floating
around in suspension right there on the paper itself. That fairly
coarse clumping of pigments is actually the substance and beauty of
the medium. Hardly the kind of grinding that one would need to pass
through an Epson micro piezzo head for photogaphic smooth value
purposes. That is apples and oranges compared there.

What started this line of the thread was me saying that carbon pigment
in conjunction with micro grinding AND all the other components of an
inkjet formulation is a different animal than carbon pigment in a
natural form, pure carbon.  

If this were not true there would be no need to fade test these
monochrome inkjet prints at all to determine whether they were >200,
>300, etc. They would last into the thousands of years, or at least
until the paper fell apart.   

john