Comments on: Sometimes Change is Good! http://figitalrevolution.com/2008/01/18/sometimes-change-is-good/ A Maverick Manifesto for the 21st Century Photograher Fri, 14 May 2010 14:33:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: figitalrevolution http://figitalrevolution.com/2008/01/18/sometimes-change-is-good/#comment-183 figitalrevolution Sun, 04 May 2008 12:53:40 +0000 http://figitalrevolution.com/2008/01/18/sometimes-change-is-good/#comment-183 I'm actually feeling pretty comfortable right now...the digital industry was perfectly content to see the consolidation and near-early death of the film industry and it was not too hard to see that it would boomerang at some point and film would have a resurgence/ rennaissance and the digital printing industry would thin out as a result. All of the rampant rebranding and homogenized paper produced the last few years may finally cut itself to just a handful of great papers...that's fine with me. I also have no problems with European Paper Mills and Coating Manufacturers. However, I'm not really sure manufactured coated inkjet papers is REALLY the future of printing anyways. I mean, think about it. Digital inkjet papers are <em>just one point </em>on the time line of photography...how many people do you know who still do salt prints? tin types? carbon prints?... in my opinion in a handful of years inkjet coated papers will fall into these categories...photography is always changing, always evolving. ( And that's a good thing.) I’m actually feeling pretty comfortable right now…the digital industry was perfectly content to see the consolidation and near-early death of the film industry and it was not too hard to see that it would boomerang at some point and film would have a resurgence/ rennaissance and the digital printing industry would thin out as a result. All of the rampant rebranding and homogenized paper produced the last few years may finally cut itself to just a handful of great papers…that’s fine with me. I also have no problems with European Paper Mills and Coating Manufacturers.

However, I’m not really sure manufactured coated inkjet papers is REALLY the future of printing anyways. I mean, think about it. Digital inkjet papers are just one point on the time line of photography…how many people do you know who still do salt prints? tin types? carbon prints?… in my opinion in a handful of years inkjet coated papers will fall into these categories…photography is always changing, always evolving. ( And that’s a good thing.)

]]> By: Steve http://figitalrevolution.com/2008/01/18/sometimes-change-is-good/#comment-162 Steve Wed, 23 Apr 2008 09:56:14 +0000 http://figitalrevolution.com/2008/01/18/sometimes-change-is-good/#comment-162 Don't get too comfortable about consolidation in the Digital Fine Art Market. Some companies are in dire state. InteliCoat might not survivie 2008, this becomes cleaerer every month. As a result we will see a major shift in the US Digital Fine Art Market, away from domestic sources (who will this be?) to the more stable European Paper Mills and Coating Manufacterers. Please keep this in mind before you get attached to paper. Don’t get too comfortable about consolidation in the Digital Fine Art Market. Some companies are in dire state. InteliCoat might not survivie 2008, this becomes cleaerer every month.
As a result we will see a major shift in the US Digital Fine Art Market, away from domestic sources (who will this be?) to the more stable European Paper Mills and Coating Manufacterers.

Please keep this in mind before you get attached to paper.

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