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Our Founder's History

A little bit about how we came to be. Jon Cone founded Cone Editions in 1980, began digital printmaking within 4 years and the rest is history...

Cone Editions Press founded in 1980 in Port Chester, NY as an experimental and collaborative printmaking studio, has been at the forefront of the digital print revolution since 1984. Its Master Printer, Jon Cone, has been producing imaginative and technically difficult editions for photographers, painters and sculptors through four decades, nearly mirroring the entire history of American Contemporary Printmaking. Cone Editions Gallery in the prestigious SoHo gallery district of NYC introduced digital print exhibitions to a New York audience in the late 1980s with shows such as The Proof, a contrast to the monumental Poem Prints exhibition of Norman Bluhm and John Yau, and the infamous Potato Prints exhibition of the Jon Cone/Archie Rand collaboration.

In 1990, Cone Editions relocated to the small, rural village of East Topsham, Vermont and dedicated itself to the development of digital printmaking. Cone built a separate 4200 square foot post and beam studio with private artist's quarters. Initially the studio combined digital imaging with screenprint, photogravure, relief print and monoprint.

Cone has been developing digital methodologies and workflow which have enabled scores of photographers, imagers, digital service providers, and teachers to embrace the latest technologies with confidence and skill. Considered to be the first pioneer of digital printmaking, Cone later went on to become IRIS Graphics Development and Marketing Partner for fine arts in the early 1990s, training an entire generation of Giclée printers. Cone has been the leading developer of archival inkjet and color management systems since the late 1990s. Cone invented the first quad-black inks and software system which used "media" profiles in 1996. He was recognized in 1999 by Photo District News as the 1999 Digital Innovator of the Year for his pioneering monochromatic inkjet work for Iris Graphics. His Piezography®BW systems is now revolutionizing traditional darkroom printing just as his IRIS software and archival inks revolutionized the fine art printmaking industry in the 1990s.

Cone personally trained many of the more innovative and well known studios of the 90s including: David Adamson, MuseX Editions, Robert Buckenmeyer's UDC, Jamie Cook, Mike Hunter, Donald Saff's SaffTech, Robert Rauschenberg's Untitled Press and many others. In the late 1990s Cone turned his attention to developing inks and software for and facilitating process and workflow with EPSON® inkjet printers. With Cone's guidance, software and inks, digital printmaking became accessible to the latest generation of digital printmakers. A whole new Black and White generation is successfully using Cone's latest innovative products: Piezography® brand software and inks for EPSON printers.

Read the complete history here.