Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., SKID Photography 
<skid@b...> wrote:
> 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)?
> 
Hi Harvey,

IRIS printers ARE still manufactured. The current iteration having 
the name IXIA (pr Zia). I commend you to visit

http://www.itnh.com/itpages/equip/new_output.html?IXIA,IXIA%20Printer

for the latest info,

Regards,

David H.