inkjet printers for digital negs

Jason P. Mitchell (jmitchel@sunset.backbone.olemiss.edu)
Sat, 28 Feb 1998 02:04:15 -0600

Many thanks for the helpful responses to my question of a couple weeks ago
about digital negs for van dyke, cyanotype, and gum. I appreciate all of
them.

I do have a new question that I hope will interest some of you.

We've all seen that some of the new and fairly inexpensive inkjet printers
will produce near-photographic-quality prints. Not perfect, of course, but
quite good.

So I can't help but wonder if anyone has tried printing image files onto
transparencies and using these as negatives for alt processes? I suspect
that they might work fine for images in which fine detail is not important,
but I don't have one of these printers (I use a laser), so I really can't
be sure.

Has anyone tried using inkjet transparencies as negatives? I'd appreciate
any comments or suggestions.

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Jason P. Mitchell
Department of English
The University of Mississippi
University, MS 38677

jmitchel@olemiss.edu
http://www.olemiss.edu/~jmitchel

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