[Alt-photo] Re: Epson printing tip

[Loris Medici]

Another option could be the "new formulation" Permajet Film. See here:
http://artofplatinum.wordpress.com/2013/02/18/permajet-film-new-forumulation-vs-pictorico-film/

I was using Ultrafine years ago with my dye based Epson (890 / 1290) and it
was working extremely very well with those dyes, not so well with pigment
inks. BUT, the only pigment inks I tested with Ultrafine wasn't any of the
current inksets - it was the first incarnation of John Cone's Piezography
Selenium Tone inkset.

Regards,
Loris.


2013/6/17 Marek Matusz <marekmatusz at hotmail.com>

> Ultrafine transparency does not have as much ink holding capacity as
> Pictorico, but plenty for gum negatives. My workflow is QTR printing with
> 25% of yellow and 25% photoblack ink. WIth unidirectional printing it goes
> pretty slow and I never have issues with the ink not drying. WHen you start
> printing with light inks that add solvent but little ink density you might
> start running into issues even at low negative densities. QTR is so great
> as it allows for direct control of the inks (in a very simple way), both
> the amount that is used and ink selection.
>
>
>
> Marek
>
>
> > From: bobkiss at caribsurf.com
> > To: alt-photo-process-list at lists.altphotolist.org
> > Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2013 11:25:31 -0400
> > Subject: [Alt-photo] Re: Epson printing tip
> >
> > 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
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: alt-photo-process-list-bounces at lists.altphotolist.org
> > [mailto:alt-photo-process-list-bounces at lists.altphotolist.org] On
> Behalf Of
> > Sandy King
> > Sent: Monday, June 17, 2013 10:32 AM
> > To: alt-photo-process-list at lists.altphotolist.org
> > Subject: [Alt-photo] Re: Epson printing tip
> >
> > 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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