Re: Ink color for digital negs
Katherine, Loris,
What type of paper would be useful for paper
negatives using inkjet printers? Loris, how did the Istanbul week go?
I'm green with envy!!
David H
On Oct 11
2006, Katharine Thayer wrote:
Loris, I think that's
interesting about the paper negatives, since
I've been thinking
about paper negatives today. I used paper
negatives for several
years, after my old Photo Stylus EX got so it
wouldn't make a
decent negative on transparencies, but I've been
using film since
I bought a 1280 last winter. But I just came across
a monochrome
print I made a year ago from a paper negative, of a
scene that
I'm now printing in color from inkjet transparencies, and
I
realized that I like the print made with the paper negative ever so
much better. There's something indefinable, some smoothness or
creaminess of the tonal transitions and of the edges, that I just
prefer. So maybe I'll be going back to paper too.
Also,
I'm delighted that someone is experimenting with yupo. I
thought
it had promise but have never had the time to perfect its
performance
for me. I look forward to seeing your prints. Not sure
I understand
the FPG and FEB designations; these are different
versions of the
product?
Katharine
On Oct 9, 2006,
at 7:11 AM, Loris Medici wrote:
> We used paper negatives in
Keith's gum workshop (Istanbul) and I was
> surprised with the
fine results we got (black ink only). I'm
> inclined to use
paper negatives for future gum works. I guess I > won't need the
sharpness
which ultra low dot gain > transparency media
provides since I will
print "a
la Keith" > (= big,
around A3 - A3+).
I'm currently making trials on >
dimensionally stable and ultra fast
drying
Yupo paper. The >
results are promising. I first coat Yupo with Daler
Rowney
>
System 3 Gesso (acrylic base AFAIK, quite matte and porous finish,
> I do two
coats) then I coat it with 3-4% gelatine (two coats).
The > whole
operation
takes 10 minutes (I dry the paper with
> hairdryer). This way gum can
stay on
surface (if I
don't do > this surface preparation, gum will simply
leave
the
paper in > pieces no matter how much I expose).
Will
start to calibrate > soon. Keith is a little bit skeptical about
curves
since his > negative making workflow is quite different
from ours
(35mm > film
recorder -> enlarged negatives on
lith film in darkroom) but I >
think we can
get better prints
when compared to uncurved > negatives.
More later (soon I
hope - I just can't wait to > share my first
succesfull
multicolor gum prints with you > folks!)
Best regards,
Loris.
> ________________________________
From:
Marek Matusz > [mailto:marekmatusz@hotmail.com]
Sent: 09 Ekim 2006
Pazartesi > 16:09
To: alt-photo-process-l@usask.ca
Subject:
Re: Ink color > for digital negs
.. On the other
hand when > printing negatives for gum I use "print
black
ink
only" > option. Chris has pointed me that way. Actually
for gum I use
> cheap
transparency and with black ink only
there is little problem > with
printer
marks and drying
...