from the new Richard Benson book- "The Printed Picture", published along with a companion exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, in the final section called Digital-
"The monochromatic ink sets use one or more black inks and various weights of
gray. The cartridges or tanks in the printer are replaced with these new ones,
and specialized software is installed in the computer to build print tones that
match the monitor display. One of the pioneers in the development of these black
and white ink sets - Jon Cone - even developed new software that lets the inkjet
put down a diffuse dot, producing a print that looks truly tonal, even under the
magnifying glass. A fine print made with these inks and that dot structure is as
rich in grays as anything silver produced in the long history of chemical
photography".
Richard is THE MAN, so good to see this kind of acknowledgement at this level.
Tyler
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