Digital BW, The Print

It's always been out of my range (never made it to ALPS, either), and I lust for these  :  ) To make matters worse, I have a DVD of Bob Rauschenberg using these beasts for transfers.

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On 4/12/2009 at 9:01 PM Jon Cone wrote:

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