<< Can anyone name *one* person making a decent living making custom
*monochrome* carbons? I certainly don't know of anyone.
What is hard for me to understand is why the Fresson family is doing so well
(as far as I know from this list) while no one can make a decent living making
custom monochrom carbons?
Strictly technically speaking, Fresson is an imperfect printing system with
problem of registration, inaccurate and unsaturated colors, poor
repeatibility, and is difficult to manufacture / process. If I understand
correctly, carbon is easier to make and is more repeatible.
Of course, Fresson looks very different from carbon. We should not compare
apples and oranges, but why is there such a big difference as far as making it
commercial?
My guess, just a guess, is that Fresson prints look very unique to anyone who
looks at them. When something is unique, sometimes it is hard to say whether
it looks good or bad. It is just unique, and that uniqueness gives a special
market. Carbon, on the other hand, look just like "better looking" photographs
to an *untrained* eye.
That would be the only reason I can think of. Anyone else has other thoughts
on this?
>> The number of things that can and will go wrong with carbon is staggering.
For some unknown reason, most of these problems disappear after a
considerable amount of experience has been gained.
I liken making alt. process print with riding a bicycle. Before you get it,
everything goes wrong. No matter how others explain to you, you just can't get
it right; then some day you get it, and you get it, and you get it. It is hard
to explain what you know before and after you get it, but you just get it.
>> Been there, done that, and got the T-shirt;-)
>>
This is a second language question for me again. What does "got the T-Shirt"
mean?
Dave