Digital BW, The Print

davidhatton2000 wrote:

>  Hi,
>
> I use a small IRIS 3024 for my colour work and I call my
> prints 'IRIS' prints.
>
> Although at one level the IRIS machine is an inkjet printer, there
> is obviously more to it than that (hence the price tag). This is the
> problem with using the generic term 'inkjet print'.
>
> To compare an IRIS print with almost any other is akin to the chalk
> and cheese analogy, and further, to call an IRIS print an injet print
> is blasphemy. IRIS printers produce nothing less than beautiful
> images and work on an entirely different technology level to
> a 'normal' inkjet printer.
>
> IRIS technology is unique, difficult to operate and very very
> expensive to run. On top of all that, IRIS rpints sell.
>
> Regards,
>
> David H

David,
I may be ignorant.  What makes Iris so different from any contemporary inkjet
printer that they should be put in a different category of printmaking?

And if Iris were really that much a superior a system and methodology, why are
they no longer made (the machines, not the prints)?

Harvey Ferdschneider
partner, SKID Photography, NYC





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