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Re: can inkjet and inkjet paper be used for alternative processes?



Hmmm...or maybe you wanted to just lay the coating down with inkjet instead of brushing???

Interesting...you could make it happen with 3rd party cartridges, I suppose and print a block of color from a PSD document. An interesting thing to try...

Paul




----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul Viapiano" <viapiano@pacbell.net>
To: <alt-photo-process-l@usask.ca>
Sent: Monday, December 29, 2008 3:19 PM
Subject: Re: can inkjet and inkjet paper be used for alternative processes?


There's a fellow at the Large Format Forum, Christopher Broadbent, who uses inkjet paper a lot for his argyrotypes. I tried it but had grainy results (also tried copier paper), but he gets great images. Sometimes it pays to experiment regardless of what the conventional wisdom is.

As far as your second question, the contact neg is where you get all your gradations from, not the thickness or density of sensitizer, even if you could rig a way to make it happen. Sensitizer does not act as ink does.

Paul



----- Original Message ----- From: "Pacific New Media" <panmedia@verizon.net>
To: <alt-photo-process-l@usask.ca>
Sent: Monday, December 29, 2008 3:13 PM
Subject: can inkjet and inkjet paper be used for alternative processes?


I have two questions:

Has anyone tried to use inkjet paper for alternative processes? If it is OK to use, is it possible to use inkjet to apply sensitizer to inkjet paper?

Thanks,
- Philip