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Re: [Digital BW] Re: Black & White Fine art book printing service?

2008-05-16 by Michael King

If you want to produce a great black and white book you need to hook
up with Brooks Jensen the "Lenswork" publisher.
Lenswork for me is the b&w book benchmark.

Mike

2008/5/16 schneidlyho <coldframedigital@...>:
> it is my understanding that really "fine art" black and white photo
> books are printed using duo, tri or quad-tone printing. a very
> demanding process involving limited inksets. here is a link to a
> description from graphics.com:
>
> http://tinyurl.com/4gg63r
>
> but as with anything else, you need to find someone who knows how to do
> it correctly, ie. quality control, or it is prone to the same
> headaches. in this age of digital printers and gang printed cymk, it
> will probably be more expensive and harder to find.
>
> let us know how it turns out.
> good luck,
> phil
>
>

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