> I have a Epson Stylus Color 500 and just recently have started to feed watercolor and handmade paper through it. The watercolor paper works well. Use the heavy paper setting. The handmade paper does too, though it is more textured and I'm not sure if it is going to gum up the printer with fibers eventually. <
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This sounds really interesting, and different (cheap to produce too).
Just with the papers available from Daniel Smiths store alone there are
dozens of paper choices/possibilities here now.
Cynthia, what do the images look similar to? Can you get a nice pastel
look? Do you you think it's possible to reproduce that polaroid "image
transfer feel"? If we scanned say a polaroid image transfer, would you
think it possible to enlarge it back to your handmade paper and retain
the feel of the origional?
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> I'm interested in this talk about making digital negatives on an Epson printer. I've been going the route of using a service bureau to make 35mm and 4x5 color negatives from my files. Can I do this myself with the Epson 500? Is this just for B&W? Can anyone refer me to information or give me more specifics? You've probably gone over all of this before but I'd appreciate it again. <
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Yes, there are folks online making black & white negatives (enlarged
negatives) from these printers - a few have even commented that the negs
are approaching the quality of the ones produced using the "photoshop
bitmap route - AKA the Burkholder method".
Keep us posted about your results with the *art-papers*, I for one would
love to hear more, thanks!
Regards,
Chris Gibbs