Term for cheap print?

[PalaDolphin]

What is the artistic term for a cheap print of an artist's work?

I'm buying frames with beautiful matting from thrift stores for less than $5 and in most cases destroying the art in the process of repurposing them for my photographs. The artwork is of a painting by some famous artist. I wish I'd taken a snapshot of the copyright and signature before closing up the frame. It was printed in some mass-produced fashion on what appears like a poster; it's not even photo-paper quality. I don't even know what you'd call that type of reproduction?

I'm asking here because you guys seem to know everything!

 

[The Hat]

I'm asking here because you guys seem to know everything!

In the beginning, there was a big Bang...

 

[Roy Sletcher]

In the beginning, there was a big Bang...

One of the first things in Genesis is:
“Then God said, ‘Let there be light’; and there was light. God saw that the
light was good....” Ever since then, photographers have been complaining about “bad light.”

From the opening chapter in Jay Maisels book, "Light, colour, gesture"

For me it lets me know who to blame for the bad light.

rs

 

[Roy Sletcher]

What is the artistic term for a cheap print of an artist's work?

POSTER

Back in the day I worked for 50 years in the comercial print world - Offset printing. A world where we purchased ink by the ton.

Frequently artists or photogrphers would ask the cost to produce limited edition reproductions of their work.

When given the price of several thosand dollars and had been revived with smelling salts we would explain the cost of top quality stock, retouching colour, multiple proof stages, press approvals, etc, etc.

Very rapidly their limited edition dreams would be reduced to a poster 500 copies for a thousand bucks, cheap paper, limited proofing, run of the mill mass production!


rs
What's in a name - Will Shakespeare (AKA the Bard)

 

[PalaDolphin]

In the beginning, there was a big Bang...

Ah ha ha ha...

 

[PalaDolphin]

POSTER

Back in the day I worked for 50 years in the comercial print world - Offset printing. A world where we purchased ink by the ton.

Frequently artists or photogrphers would ask the cost to produce limited edition reproductions of their work.

When given the price of several thosand dollars and had been revived with smelling salts we would explain the cost of top quality stock, retouching colour, multiple proof stages, press approvals, etc, etc.

Very rapidly their limited edition dreams would be reduced to a poster 500 copies for a thousand bucks, cheap paper, limited proofing, run of the mill mass production!

A real shame.
Poster, thanks.

 

[Ink stained Fingers]

In the beginning, there was a big Bang...

and shortly after the first inkjet printers emerged .....

 

[PalaDolphin]

and shortly after the first inkjet printers emerged .....

I remember Okidata dot matrix printers were the rage in the '80s, if anyone can remember that far back past the fog weed.

 

[PalaDolphin]

Did inkjet printers evolve from dot matrix? Were they in the Matrix with Trinity, Neo, and Morpheus?

 

[Ink stained Fingers]

some ink writing technology actually is pretty old - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syphon_recorder - shortly after the big bang - or with Siemens after WWII - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rune_Elmqvist, and a pretty first real printer (drop on demand with piezo elements ) in 1977 was a Siemens PT88i with 12 nozzles.......