[Alt-photo] Re: Epson printing tip

[sam wang]

Feeding the film from the front also helps eliminate pizza wheels.

But the not-drying was a problem. After Sandy told me about using his stash of Ultrafine as interleafing or cover sheets for Pictorico, I arrived at what I thought was best of both worlds: print a 2nd reversed left-to-right negative and sandwich the 2 face to face. The surprise was that using just photo black I made almost straight line negatives perfect for PD.

Wish Don asked me before throwing his Ultrafine in the trash - Ultrafine alone makes nice gums. Love the clear base. All you need is to back the non-dry negative with very thin piece of Duralar and it would work great. That is, if your Epson behaves as it should - mine just died. Or at least the PK print head seems to have just died - completely clogged with a 7/10 full cartridge.

Sam Wang

On Jun 17, 2013, at 11:25 AM, BOB KISS <bobkiss at caribsurf.com> wrote:

> 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
>