The net (+email) is wide open and loose, making quick answers so easy that they form the bulk of human interactions. Bulk in quantity. Answers come as though the respondent were in a race or grand contest. First to ring the bell. As an illustration, consider this question and response.
There are people using all the standard inksets out there and getting great results.
M–name
http://www.companyname.comOn Apr 30, 2009, at 1:51 PM, Richard wrote:
> has anyone taken on the project of developing a set of inks that
> would perform best for producing digital negatives suited for use in
> alt /silver/ processes?
>
> Richard.
>
The question was posted by me, the response was posted by someone who has decades of printing experience. He is a common responder on that list, and is probably well regarded. Consider what his answer means. What it allows, what it rejects. I do, then usually ask what is left open to do.
Of course most people are happy doing what is easy. So happy that they accept whatever that easy answer is, rather than test its strength, durability, even its accuracy to their expectation. People regularly alter their expectation to meet the easiest available solution.
Lesson: Beware the answer that is designed to cut off thought. The answer that stops the question by avoiding the thinking behind the question. Question quick, empty answers or else you will spend your life doing someone else’s work.
