RE: Our responsibilty with Inkjet Printing

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  <DIV><FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial size=2><SPAN 
  class=710410201-04072000>John,</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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  <DIV><FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=710410201-04072000>At 
  the risk of doing what I have condemned others of doing, I was referring 
  mainly to the common man-on-the street buyer of imagery and not necessarily to 
  the speculative buyers of investment art, wealthy collectors 
  of&nbsp;innovative or out of the ordinary works of art that are on the cutting 
  edge whether they are temporary installations and works or permanent archival, 
  or even regular art buyers who are art collectors looking for different 
  artworks for their collections rather than art to put on the wall which&nbsp; 
  matches their interior design and decor.&nbsp; I am also taking about print 
  buyers who are buying portraiture and special events imagery in contrast to 
  fine arts or scenic imagery.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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  class=710410201-04072000>&gt;other hand, I have a feeling that longevity may 
  not -- surprisingly -- be as much of interest to collectors than seems 
  rational. People are spending tens of thousand dollars &gt;on C-prints, which 
  are not I think all that archival. Hey, people are paying a lot more than that 
  for Joseph Bueys lard pieces, a medium that has presumably never seen &gt;the 
  inside of Wilhelm's lab.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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  <DIV><FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=710410201-04072000>I 
  sometimes think that it&nbsp;is not the serious collectors and high spending 
  buyers&nbsp;who keep up with the art scene and know about what is archival and 
  what is not who get that concerned about art which is only temporary 
  art.&nbsp; It appears to me that it is the occasional art fair&nbsp; or street 
  bazaar buyer, the person buying art work for&nbsp;display on their 
  walls&nbsp;for purposes of room decor and not because of the artwork itself 
  who do not keep up with the current art scene, what is archival and what is 
  not, or the current status of technology.&nbsp; Moreover, they probably could 
  care less.&nbsp;</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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  <DIV><FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=710410201-04072000>I 
  bring this up only because the original topic appeared to me to be 
  much&nbsp;broader than just commercial or fine arts 
  sales&nbsp;or&nbsp;licensing of stock imagery and was not merely restricted to 
  the seller.&nbsp; </SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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    size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B> 
    owner-epson-inkjet@leben.com [mailto:owner-epson-inkjet@leben.com]<B>On 
    Behalf Of </B>John Matturri<BR><B>Sent:</B> Sunday, July 02, 2000 6:10 
    PM<BR><B>To:</B> epson-inkjet@leben.com<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re: Our 
    responsibilty with Inkjet Printing<BR><BR></DIV></FONT>This is certainly 
    true and is an issue I'm grappling with a new gallery -- one that I raised, 
    not them. I'm not sure what to say and what guarantee to give. I'll put a 
    lifelong alumni web-forwarding address on the back (though who knows what 
    lifelong means there) but what that will mean is chancy. 
    <P>On the other hand, I have a feeling that longevity may not -- 
    surprisingly -- be as much of interest to collectors than seems rational. 
    People are spending tens of thousand dollars on C-prints, which are not I 
    think all that archival. Hey, people are paying a lot more than that for 
    Joseph Bueys lard pieces, a medium that has presumably never seen the inside 
    of Wilhelm's lab. But the collectors' psychology is not something I 
    understand very well. 
    <P>John M. 
    <P>Laurie wrote: 
    <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE="CITE"><PRE>namely the buyers side of the
equation.&nbsp; They typically are buying prints not files; they want and expect
some degree of longevity, and they do not want to have to keep going back to
the seller to buy or get them to print up new replacement prints from the
original or duplicate files.&nbsp; From their point of view the life span of the
digital file is not relevant or significant.</PRE></BLOCKQUOTE>- Turn off 
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