RE: New paper(atten: Jerry Olson and all)

[Michael Greer <mgreer942@yahoo.com>]

--- Daniel Salzedo <Daniel@rimasystem.com> wrote:
> I understand Jerry's position perfectly. I assume most of his 2000 images
> are personal and/or family pictures of no commercial interest to anyone
> else. 2000x $2.50=$5000. This is, by my personal standards, quite a large
> enough sum to worry about for a purely personal project like this.

I too understand and agree with Jerry's position on personal prints. But I must
make 2 observations.

1) The only time he's distingquished between personal prints and commercial
prints is when I started responding about using the best papers available for
his clients. In responses to others who also think the Lyson and Luminos papers
are too expensive, he makes no such distinction. In fact, he goes so far as to
say others papers are just as good for much less. For all I know he's right.
But that hasn't been satisfactorily proven in my opinion. It seems like the
Lyson/Luminos papers are in fact the best match for Lyson/Luminos inks. 

2) His he REALLY going to print 2000 16x20s for his personal use? 2000? He says
he has that many and he had inferred that with that many images the paper cost
difference would be significant (and it would). But 2000 prints @ 16x20 inches
for personal use? I'm sorry, but I find that a little difficult to believe.

The only reason I responded to this thread in the first place in because
anytime anybody mentioned Lyson/Luminos papers Jerry immediately responded by
"too expensive" with no qualifications. Finally, I felt I had to respond
because I didn't (and still don't) see where $2-$3 difference per 17x22 inch
sheet makes a whole lot of difference to a person who took off down this
archival road because clients were returning prints due to fading. That's what
started hie whole trek. It was his concern in his comercial ventures, not his
personal desires. That being the case, it made no sense to me NOT to use the
recommended papers with the ink he had chosen.

So for those who haven't followed this line of discussion over the past 3-4
months, your data in incomplete. THIS THREAD STARTED WITH COMMERCIAL CONCERNS,
not personal concerns. If you don't believe me, search out the archives and
read for yourself.


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