These dyes are rather benign. Not a good part. We have published rates. But apparently fine bookbinding is more expensive than one might imagine. Most fine printing is a labor of love! Jon --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Mark Savoia <mark@...> wrote: > > 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 ;) > > >
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Re: [Digital BW] The cult of the IRIS Print
2009-04-12 by Jon Cone
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