Digital BW, The Print

An honest appraisal for ABW would be Honda Accord - gets you where you want to go with least amount of fuss, reliably, on time. The ride is boring.

Some other higher solutions are like those expensive cars that are a great ride, even if they spend a lot of time in the workshop. I do not want to insult anyone with names of high end, but unreliable cars.

Why am I defending ABW? I don't even use the damn thing much. Must be because I have seen too many good prints with ABW. If it allows ordinary people (including Walmart) to make good prints, well that is the American way - stick it to the uber-class elites.

Shilesh

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@...m, "deanwork2003" <deanwork2003@...> wrote:
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> Well that is more than an ironic metaphor. I went into the Super Walmart the other day, up here in the burbs of Georgia to buy some soap, and low and behold there it was, the Super Walmart digital imaging center, complete with Epson 7880s, cranking out ABW prints by the thousands. I wish I were kidding but I'm afraid that IS what this HAS come to, right now,  artistically created cheaper by the dozen "archival" pigment prints on Sommerset Enhanced. And they didn't even need QTR....
> Isn't life great.
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> john
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> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "igor_mountain" <igorkarpenko@> wrote:
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> > It sounds more like the "Wal-Mart way" – come in and run small shops out of business with cheaper and lower quality products.  I would think that the American way is supporting a US-based small business that is innovative and which employs US citizens.  
> > 
> > But what do I know – I grew up in a Communist country :-)
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