From: Carl Weese (cweese@earthlink.net)
Date: 06/27/01-08:28:11 AM Z
Dave,
I think that digital (inkjet or whatever comes next) will soon be the
"conventional" approach to color photography. In fact I made that prediction
in a magazine article about four years ago--but I thought then that we'd
already be there by now <s>.
Meanwhile, what I find incredibly useful is the ability to use desktop tools
to *reproduce* fine photographs for promotional materials: mailers, gallery
portfolios, etc. I've done commercial photography since 1972, commercial
graphic design since 1992, and I'm amazed to find that with an inexpensive
desktop scanner and an inexpensive Epson Photo inkjet printer I can produce
promotional materials that rival all but the most lavish traditional
commercial four-color printing. And you can print just as many as you need,
when you need them. Unless you need a gazillion, it's just great.
OTOH, so far I'm not the least bit tempted to use inkjet printing for actual
"serious prints" instead of silver or platinum. But in the future, who
knows?
---Carl
--
web site with picture galleries
and workshop information at:
http://home.earthlink.net/~cweese/
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>From: Dave Rose <photo@wir.net>
>To: alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca
>Subject: Re: inkjet prints
>Date: Wed, Jun 27, 2001, 9:35 AM
>
> I just took delivery on an Epson 2000P. Epson claims that prints on
> Archival Matte Paper are good for "200+" years. If this is even halfway
> true, I think "questions of archivality" have indeed been solved.
>
> So far, I've only made a couple of prints, just to make sure the printer
> works. Initial results are simply amazing. I don't think I'll ever buy
> Cibachrome materials again.
>
> Does anyone consider inkjet prints to be alt-photo? As a film & chemistry
> expert from the 'old school' of conventional photography, I consider the
> digital darkroom to be alt-photo. (I guess it really depends on how you
> define alt-photo). Who knows, maybe in ten years digital will be
> 'conventional', and a few die-hards shooting film and making C prints will
> be seen as practicing alt-photo!
>
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