[Alt-photo] Re: Epson printing tip

[BOB KISS]

I have used Inkpress film with my Epson 3800 since I bought it years ago.
The only kink I had was some pizza wheel marks regardless of which of the
loading method I used.  They were quickly solved by increasing the drying
time for each pass so I am very happy with this combination.
				CHEERS!
					BOB

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I am surprised that the inks from the 3800 dry with the Ultrafine clear
transparency material. When I used it with the 3800 the ink would just sit
on the surface and never fully dry. I bought a lot of it so was pretty
disappointed, but I found out that the Ultrachrome worked nicely when used
between the negative and my sensitized carbon tissue. 

Sandu


On Jun 16, 2013, at 9:33 PM, Marek Matusz wrote:

> 
> 
> All Happy Father's day to all alt fathers. I do have a tip for printing on
Epson printers, mine is 3800, but others might apply. I feel silly for
"discovering " it only after years of printing. I have been working on
another set of low color saturation gums (a la Chia) and printing 4
negatives each. At 11x14 size pictorico was too much in terms of cost so I
was using Ultrafine Crystal CLear transparency. However some of my negatives
were coming out in different size. It was curios as some of them were just
narrower by a quarter of an inch (something that I only discovered during
printing). Strangely enough the negative was cut off (or it's printing was
cut off) so that they still matched perfectly, but left a stripe of
unprinted layer on the paper. Today I came across a negative that was about
3/8 inch narrower. I really could not tell what was happening. As of some
time I was putting a piece of blue painter's tape at the edge of
transparency (bottom) to make sure that the 
 pr
> inter will recognize the transparency as paper to feed it. Ultrafine
transparency comes with a white tape stripe along the long edge of the
sheet. I was always feeding it at the right edge of the printer (as you are
looking at the front of it) thinking that that where the sensor is looking
for an edge of the paper. I guess I was wrong. As soon as I placed the white
stripe on the left I got a consistent print (just like it would be on
paper). No need to add another tape edge along the short side. It took me so
many years to fix this intermittent problem.  The other trick is to increase
platen gap from a standard setting. I was seeing some stripes on the prints
(venetian blinds) and as soon as I increased platen gap they went away. I
think this was mentioned a couple times over the years, but I never felt the
need to apply that. Anyways I finished 4 sets of negatives (4 negatives per
print) and printed black layer. A very productive weekend. Marek

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