Judy Seigel (jseigel@panix.com)
Sun, 10 Jan 1999 02:36:22 -0500 (EST)
Cleaning out the augean stables (which river did Hercules divert?) for the
New Year, I found this between John Lowen & Luis Nadeau, a propos of
making negatives by inkjet, although Luis is talking Iris print, which is
beyond my area of non-expertise... However, the points bear on some of the
current discussion, so I take the liberty of repeating them. I added a
row of asterisks around the sentence that seemed most pertinent... Judy
On Mon, 30 Nov 1998, Luis Nadeau wrote:
> At 10:51 AM +0000 98/11/30, John Lowen wrote:
> >I am using the Epson 800 at 1440 and am satisfied with the results -
> >Use waxed paper negatives in bromoil, POP, Van Dyke, Silver etc.
>
>
> I think the secret here is that *paper* negatives have to be used. I still
> have not received a positive print made with a continuous tone process to
> confirm it although several people have promised me one.
>
> About 200 copies of my History and Practice of Platinum Printing (3rd ed.)
> were offered with a small print made by Robert Steinberg on his Palladio
> paper. The original photograph (taken with an 11 x 14 inch camera) was
> scanned, reduced, printed with an Iris ink-jet in multiples on a sheet of
> acetate.
******* To get enough density on the acetate, all four colors had to be
> used but the resulting negative was not a perfect neutral grey. He
> found that by adding a certain tint he could make substantial contrast
> adjustments on his pre-coated Palladio paper.*******
> The results were excellent (though perhaps not absolutely superb) but
> considering the prints were made "en masse" they were beautiful and
> grainless even under a loupe.
>
> Now I'm waiting to see if this can be done on a $300 printer...
>
>
> Luis Nadeau
> NADEAUL@NBNET.NB.CA
> Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada
> http://www3.nbnet.nb.ca/nadeaul/
>
>
>
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