Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/01/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Alastair, the reason companies are moving digital printing to photographic paper is twofold. First, the money to be made by Kodak, Fuji, et al is in selling paper and chemistry. Also, process, control, and longevity are well known variables. The only hard part was designing the three color lasers needed to expose the paper. The second reason is that very few companies are willing to spend the R&D to create a whole new system to accomplish the same thing, printing images. On the smaller scale only Epson was willing to drive the ink jet market from a poor persons business printer to the industry standard for independent photographers. This took what, five or so years from the first Photo Stylus printer? Ever since the SciTech machines almost everyone has known that manipulating visual information in the digital realm provided far more control. Also, once manipulated, you can generate infinite exact copies easily. Of course, imagine "Moonrise over Hernandez" printed a billion times and that thought is not entirely pleasant. Don dorysrus@mindspring.com - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html