RE: Tricolor gum, order of layers
HP sells a paper called translucent inkjet bond. Mine is from freedompaper.com. It's a 18lb smooth paper which looks like a bolder drafting/tracing paper (it has some size I presume since it's marketed as inkjet media). Hope this helps, Loris. 3 Ekim 2008, Cuma, 11:05 am tarihinde, john@johnbrewerphotography.com yazmış: > Hi Loris > > Could you describe the paper you use for negatives a little more? You say > it > is quite translucent, Is it like draughting film (paper) or velum ? Who is > the manufacturer? Pictorico here in the UK is expensive too. > > Regards > > John. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Loris Medici [mailto:mail@loris.medici.name] > Sent: 02 October 2008 23:26 > To: alt-photo-process-l@usask.ca > Subject: Re: Tricolor gum, order of layers > > Yes, composite grayscale is exactly grayscale including color inks. With > my > printer that means: back + light gray + some (very little I presume) color > ink... > > Probably oiling would mask some of the paper texture... I noticed that the > paper you mention is a special photo paper. If I'm not mistaking, the > printers lay much more ink and use a much denser dithering algorithm with > those "photo" papers. Instead, I use a special type of plain paper (which > is > quite translucent - and less textured / but there's still some texture > - compared to ordinary plain paper) and I print using the plain paper > profile provided in the printer driver (which lays much less ink and uses > a > more visible / relaxed dithering pattern), and I think that's the main > difference leading to my pointillistic result which you haven't observed. > > Hope this helps, > Loris. > > > 1 Ekim 2008, Çarşamba, 12:13 am tarihinde, Katharine Thayer yazmış: >> Hi Loris, >> Aaah, I get it now. You erased and reprinted the cyan layer. >> Thanks, and sorry for being so dense. >> >> Hmm, that's very interesting about the pointillism; by "composite >> grayscale" you mean greyscale printed with color inks, I assume. >> That's how I've always printed my paper negatives, and I haven't ever >> got that effect, except for the one time I mentioned when I used >> pencil to make changes on the paper negative. I wonder what the >> difference is, whether it's oiled or not, or maybe the kind of paper? >> The paper that's always worked best for me has been Epson Photo >> Quality Inkjet Paper, (now called Presentation Paper Matte -- same >> stock number, different name), oiled. I used to use mineral oil, til >> Keith suggested baby oil and I switched over. Well, it doesn't >> matter, I'm just curious ; I like to try to understand things that >> aren't immediately obvious to me. >> >> You're most welcome, glad to offer what help I can, although >> ultimately it's gum that teaches its requirements and principles to >> those who are willing to learn from it; all I can do is point in a >> general direction. >> Katharine > > > > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG - http://www.avg.com > Version: 8.0.173 / Virus Database: 270.7.5/1703 - Release Date: 10/2/2008 > 7:46 AM > >
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