Digital BW, The Print

http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=4937453n

The link above is to an 8 minute spot on this morning's CBS Morning Show about a print project I completed for the Smithsonian's Rare Book Collection. The photographer is Jonathan Singer. The subjects are some of the rarest plants and flowers in the world, which have been recorded in low light with a digital backed Hasselblad. 

This is of general print interest because the IRIS medium is a precursor to many of the printers being used by many if not all of the members of this group. Though the IRIS inkjet technology is dissimilar to Canon/Epson/HP, it paved the way for those printers when it was adapted to photo and fine art in the early 1990s. 

These are IRIS inkjet prints on handmade Japanese papers using a dye based inkset on my still clunking-along IRIS 3047 printer from 1992. It is amazing how long this one technology has persisted. The company stopped making them 10 years ago.

Jon Cone
IRIS evangelist  ;)