Re: Paper negatives- Ink Selection
I'll just say, gimme the stuff Katharine gets... :)
Laura
Katharine Thayer wrote:
On Oct 15, 2008, at 12:35 PM, Laura Valentino wrote:
Katharine Thayer wrote:
With the cheap
transparency film I use, I won't have any need to go back to paper
unless for some reason I can't get that film any more.
Hi Katharine...what type of cheap film? I have the same printer as
you. (actually the 1270, which is the Euro model).
Laura
Oh dear, I always paint myself into this corner whenever I mention the
cheap transparency film that I use.
The problem is that I don't know what it is. It's something I get from
filmsource.com, on recommendation of a friend from this list who gave me
a few sheets to try. This company buys different manufacturers' films
and repackages them under their own label. Unfortunately, they market
different films under the same stock name and #, so I can't even tell
you the stock name and # with any expectation that you'd get the same
film I use. Once they sent me a different film when I ordered the same
stock number again; the other film behaved entirely differently. They
wouldn't take it back because they said all the film they sell under the
same # should behave similarly enough to not make any difference, but
there was a big difference as far as making digital negatives with. I
did eventually figure out how to make so-so negatives with the other
film, since they wouldn't take it back, but since then they have been
careful to send me the same film I got the first time, and I'm happy.
But.... I have no idea in the world what it is, so if they go out of
business or lose my records or something, I won't have any way of
finding that film again, which rather terrifies me. Sorry, I'm afraid
that's not very helpful, but it's all I know.
Katharine
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