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Re: [Digital BW] The cult of the IRIS Print

2009-04-12 by Jon Cone

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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