Digital BW, The Print

Jon has long been on my short list of great printmakers. Along with  
Harry Bowers, Richard Wolfson, and other less often quoted names.

C. D. Tobie
Global Product Technology Mngr.
Digital Imaging & Home Theater
Datacolor.com
CDTobie@...

On Apr 12, 2009, at 7:09 PM, "john dean" <deanwork2003@...> wrote:

> Yea, he owns a company that produces black and white carbon inksets  
> of great beauty, and he as done so for a decade and more, under very  
> difficult circumstances, and each new one is better than the last.  
> It is a joke to compare yourself to him, even marginally, and it's  
> disrespectful in my opinion. Why?... for the simple reason that he  
> is known across the world as a great PRINTMAKER first. He is one of  
> us in other words, and that is exactly why he has so much more  
> credibility in this monochrome digital imaging world than just about  
> anyone I've come across.
>
> Having "multiple hats" doesn't make one geometrically more  
> sophisticated and insightful in this territory. Hardly. And  
> Certainly not a great print maker, which by the way, Cone is. And,  
> that is significant to those of us who grew up in this photo world  
> 30 years ago. I've known many historically great photo print makers  
> and Jon, though he runs an ink business, happens to be one.
>
> john
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> I don't begrudge him his saleman's hat or
>> his developer's hat; but neither do I apologize for my own, though
>> having been involved in several areas of the field, I am "biased" in
>> multiple directions at once.
>>
>> C. D. Tobie
>> Global Product Technology Mngr.
>> Digital Imaging & Home Theater
>> Datacolor.com
>> CDTobie@...
>>
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