Digital BW, The Print

First of all, I love silver, and I know some people who have had these done, and as another available option I think it's great.
But I am tired of some of these preconceptions, they demonstrate lack of knowledge.
What makes my ink prints any less "hand crafted" than the silvers prints I was making before? The number of options I have to wade through to get the ink print I want makes for much more involved time, and it's way way more finessed, a better print expression of my image.
Once one is done and considered good, I could run off 10 more in the darkroom way faster than I can run off ten more ink prints. There will also be a higher rate of failures in ink, and it's more expensive.
These kinds of preconceptions, based on lack of knowledge, need to be corrected.
Didn't mean to jump on your post Sarah, it just presented me with another rant opportunity. Anyone making such statements is merely telling me they don't know what they are talking about, not good for them.

Tyler



--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Sarah Renkes" <sagaface@...> wrote:
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> I've never heard of this method of printing digital files...I've only explored inkjet possibilities. Anyone have experience with it and/or what are your thoughts? an excerpt:
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> "Whether you shoot digitally or on film, Digital Silver Imaging delivers stunning black & white results. Every print is hand-crafted, produced via a photographic chemical process - not inkjet printing - using a Durst Theta 51 laser printer up to 400 full continuous tone pixels per inch (ppi)."
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> the website:
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> http://www.digitalsilverimaging.com/services.php
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> thanks,
> Sarah
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