Digital BW, The Print

>
> "The term "Carbon Pigment Print", often used today to describe fine
> art black and white inkjet prints, seems to have evolved out of the
> controversy that sprang up after some inkjet people used the term
> "Carbon Print", and the people working in the old carbon print
> processes took offense that their name was being hijacked."
>
> This battle raged for months across numerous forums, and when the dust
> finally settled there seemed to be a tacit agreement throughout the
> inkjet community that "carbon print" was off limits, but things like
> "Carbon Pigment Print" and "Carbon Ink Print" are ok.  I guess history
> has to repeat itself.
>
> BTW, the article makes a case for using "Carbon Ink Print", but I did
> not invent the term.  It was one of several I saw used during The
> Great Carbon Print Debate.
>


The terminology Carbon Print used for the prints in the Bill Brandt show and
by the Brandt Archive has raised the ire of numerous traditional carbon
print/alt process printers - who basically see it as a deceitful use of the
term.

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