Digital BW, The Print

I agree. So not descriptive of anything. Might have been needed at the
beginning... but today? Me not think so.

Hey I just loaded my water gun with some dye blue ink and unloaded it
on a piece of HPR. An original giclée... :-)

Denis


--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Tyler Boley"
<tyler@...> wrote:
>
> unlike "toned silver gelatin", "Platinum", "Kallitype", on and on,
> including all of the intaglio, silkscreen, stone lithography, etc etc..
> 
> .. it's not a very helpful term, as it does not inform about the
> materials at all, or really the process.
> It could be Iris, Epson, dye or pigment, whatever.
> Certainly people can call their prints whatever they want.
> I prefer to call them something helpful and descriptive, and like
> yours, mine are originals, not "reproductions" of some other original.
> 
> Tyler
> 
> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Clayton Jones"
> <cj@> wrote:
> >
> > Hello Tyler,
> > 
> > > http://www.dpandi.com/giclee/giclee.html
> > 
> > Thanks for the good link.  Here is the essence of the dictionary
> > definition at the bottom:
> > 
> > "...exact copy of an original work of art that was created by
> > conventional means (painting, drawing, etc.) and then reproduced
> > digitally, typically via inkjet printing."
> > 
> > I don't know if the author(s) of this meant to include photographs in
> > the "etc" part of "conventional means", but no matter.  If a giclee is
> > a copy of an original work of art, then it's not a good term for my
> > ink prints because my prints are original works of art.  
> > 
> > If anyone wants to call their prints giclees that's fine, but they are
> > relegating their efforts to the realm of copies.
> > 
> > Regards,
> > Clayton
> > 
> > 
> > Info on black and white digital printing at    
> > http://www.cjcom.net/digiprnarts.htm
> > I-Trak 2.1   http://www.cjcom.net/itrak.htm
> >
>