Digital BW, The Print

Although I have been printing with Piezo inks for a few years and prior 
to that for many years as a photographic illustrator, I am totally 
confused by the terms being used by so many of the obviously 
knowledgable members. 

Would somone please post a Glossary of abreviations for those of us who 
would like to participate if only we knew what is being talked about?

Sherwin Greenberg

Sherwin-  Since none of the more experienced guys on the forum have 
responded, here's a stab . . . 

HPR-  Hahnemuhle Photo Rag.
PR-  Hanhnemuhle Photo Rag.
RAG-  Hanhnemuhle Photo Rag.
AARGH-  Leaking second-party ink carts; also used idiomatically to 
mean splattered ink or spilt milk.
YUK-  Anything Epson OEM, especially ink.
EEM-  Epson Enhanced Matte paper (YUK).
CONSTPTN-  Clogged jets.
EBONI-  A dark African wood ground into powder for ink.  Offers 
excellent DMAX (see below).  Clogs jets (see CONSTPTN above).
MIS-  The Nigerian trading company that distributes EBONI via email.  
(Be sure to open the attachment over a disk or else AARGH.)
LINEARIZED:  Any print of straight lines, such as railroad tracks.
DMAX-  American slang for "black cat."
FINE ART-  Any print passing the spectrophotometer test at .01, 2.2, 
3.47 or better.
YIKES-  I poked myself in the arm with an ink syringe and injected 3 
ml @ $0.62/ml.

Sorry, I don't know any of the others either.

Walt


 




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DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "sherwin_greenberg" 
<sherwin_greenberg@y...> wrote:
> Although I have been printing with Piezo inks for a few years and 
prior 
> to that for many years as a photographic illustrator, I am totally 
> confused by the terms being used by so many of the obviously 
> knowledgable members. 
> 
> Would somone please post a Glossary of abreviations for those of us 
who 
> would like to participate if only we knew what is being talked 
about?
> 
> Sherwin Greenberg

On Tue, Aug 16, 2005 at 12:07:35PM -0000, sherwin_greenberg wrote:
> Although I have been printing with Piezo inks for a few years and prior 
> to that for many years as a photographic illustrator, I am totally 
> confused by the terms being used by so many of the obviously 
> knowledgable members. 
> 
> Would somone please post a Glossary of abreviations for those of us who 
> would like to participate if only we knew what is being talked about?

I think you might get better responses if you post a specific list
of terms that have flummoxed you.

Good luck.

-- 
 Ben Rosengart                                          ben@...
       "Young people should be seen and not heard, because they're
        good-looking but not too bright.  We're pretty bright now,
        but we're ugly." -- Grace Slick on the '60s youth movement