Continue To Explore Digital Prints

The article explores the reality of digital print in china today. It tends to prove the solid support both in material and in spirit to Chinese digital print and foresee its bright future. It also points out the paradoxical knowledge of artists towards digital print, that is, at one side they think it as too simple and tedious, and at the other side they are still even more inclined to believe in computer and look forward to technical improvements to widen their creative possibilities. Learning from his own continuous practice on digital print and comparing to the other kinds of print, the auther analyzes the tipical esthetics of the digital and launched one of the conclusions that the digital print can't imitate the other prints with nothing new but find its own ways of visual effects combined with computer and printer. One way is to make full use of printer, another way is to combine with other prints to create a new form. The digital print is a new art of the time which creates new possibilities to traditional print. As artists keep exploring digitized technics including computer, print and Internet to apply them to digital print, it will certainly become the named " the Fifth Print".