Digital BW, The Print

on 2/8/02 3:55 PM, SKID Photography wrote:

> I beg to differ.
> 
> To be academically correct (like from a museum and informative standpoint)
> they
> are inkjet prints using 'carbon pigment' (or whatever) inks.
> 
> To use any other term is a marketing ploy.  And that's ok if you recognize the
> difference. :-)

Not sure I agree with that. When I look at photos in museums and galleries I
see tags like: "Toned Silver Gelatin Print", or "Chromogenic Print". This
refers to the materials solely, much as Carbon Pigment inks on Rag Paper
does. 

The traditional equivalent of what you propose might be: "Enlarged Toned
Silver Gelatin Print", or "Contact Print, Toned Silver Gelatin".

The latter are terms one might see in some places, but when they are
represented more simply, as in the former instance, which in my experience
is most of the time, I've not heard it referred to as a marketing ploy.

Todd