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

[Paul Viapiano <viapiano@pacbell.net>]

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