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Re: [Digital BW] Re:What is a Giclee.... straight from the source

2008-10-07 by Dana H. Myers

Charles Becker wrote:
> An original oil painting or an original inkjet print. 
> So if you make a copy of an original oil painting, then it's just that "a copy"
> If you make a copy of your original inkjet print, then there just copies as well.
> If you go out and take a picture with a digital camera and then make a print on an inkjet printer, is the first print the original and all others are copies? Food for thought. :)
> If you tweak the file does it now become it's "own original"
> Best, Charles

I'm sure all of us have set-up a print in an enlarger,
then exposed multiple sheets of paper in direct succession,
then developed them all at once.  All the prints are
original prints - not reproductions.

The same is true of inkjet prints from any source.

Cheers,
Dana

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