Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/10/17
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 05:51 PM 10/17/00 -0400, you wrote: >It all depends, of course, of the final use. But if I was going to produce >prints for mounting and display, I would go with (a higher priced) >traditional silver-gelatin print. Ink-jets are a great learning tool, a >good way of (relatively) quickly putting together a portfolio for display or >to send to someone, but if the final use is museum display (or the >equivalent, even if not in a museum) silver-gelatin is the way to go. And I >consider charging the same amount for piezography (or more!) to be an odd >practice. > >M. Martin - Well, it works for me and evidently for most of the members of the piezography list. Have you seen a piezography print? It's nothing like a plain inkjet print. As for individually different prints, I can choose between hundreds of different papers and an infinite number of subtle and dramatic differences in printing techniques. It's possible to make identical prints, if you want to; but it's possible to make identical prints in the darkroom, too, if you are careful. I hope that people who buy my prints are buying them for the image and not the paper or printing technique. With piezography, the image comes closer to what I saw when I pressed the shutter. I'm not charging for the process, I'm charging for the image. Tina