Re: Ink-jet negs for gums

Luis Nadeau (awef6t@mi.net)
Tue, 14 May 1996 20:44:26 -0300

>Roger, I haven't personally, but a close friend of mine who knows well the
>capapbility and quality of output from Film Recorders literally scoffed when
>I suggested ink-jet. My question is compared to a real negative (however
>created), can the quality of a lazer or ink-jet home-type (non-industrial)
>printer even compare?

Ink-jet "home type" may not quite compare if you have to *buy* an Iris
printer, which I understand is still very expensive. If you can have your
work produced as internegs on a large Iris printed acetate then perhaps the
cost, per neg, will be "home type". Part of the latest (3rd) edition of
History and Practice of Platinum Printing was available with a small
original Palladio print produced that way and by all accounts the results
were considered excellent. The technology involved an Iris ink-jet with a
300 dpi resolution but the "extrapolated" results were screenless and
looked like 1,500 dpi. Superb!

Luis Nadeau
awef6t@mi.net
Paris, France (for a while)

>Risa
>>Has anyone tried gums with ink-jet negs?
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>>Roger.
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