Digital BW, The Print

So dyes, they had no issues with them because of dark storage? I hope  
you got a good part of the $500,000-$800,000 cost to make them :)

Mark
http://www.stillrivereditions.com

On Apr 12, 2009, at 5:01 PM, Jon Cone wrote:

> 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  ;)
>