Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/04/08

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Subject: [Leica] Eggleston
From: lew1716 at gmail.com (Lew Schwartz)
Date: Sun, 8 Apr 2012 18:21:01 -0400
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The current crop of inkjet pigment inks are nothing to sneeze at
either. You may be right about the dye transfer, however, Early on,
Eggleston's were produced this way to accommodate the art market's
concerns about archival issues ... not only for the prints, but for
the archival black and white separation negs that are the background
of the process. Damaged or destroyed prints can (in theory) always be
replaced.

At a recent Eggleston show in NYC, dye transfers and inkjet pigment
prints were shown side by side. None of  my crowd, whom consider
themselves discerning, could tell the difference. Perhaps inkjet
pigment prints were described as "newer" than dye transfer to the
reporter and he, not knowing any better, misreported it as a new color
process.

On Sun, Apr 8, 2012 at 2:29 PM, Phil Swango <pswango at att.net> wrote:
> Lew Schwartz wrote:
>>Any idea what "utilized a new color printing process allowing for
>>high-quality reproductions" refers to?
>
> Not exactly but I've seen it referred to as pigment prints using digital
> technology. ?The prints are really large -- I read they were 40x60 inches.
> ?The original editions were done with the now obsolete dye transfer
> process, which was used mostly for commercial printing in the past. ?I'm
> not sure how the new prints could have a richer gamut than the old ones,
> considering the superb reputation of dye transfer. ?More here:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dye-transfer_process
>
>
>
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-Lew S.


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