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Re: Digital b/w negs
I think the original question was about negatives for conventional silver printing. There's probably a contrast grade that would work with the inkjet output.
Bill
---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: "Jeffrey D. Mathias" <jeffrey.d.mathias@worldnet.att.net>
Reply-to: alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca
Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 16:44:21 -0500
>Sil Horwitz wrote:
>> ... I have not found any inkjet printer capable of
>> making good, true negatives useful for contact printing. This is mainly
>> because the ink is transparent and it is difficult to create a good Dmax.
>> ...
>
>This is not exactly so. As Dan Burkholder demonstrated at APIS and as I
>have been playing with, the color can have as much an effect as
>density. Not exactly, but in a way that will make possible a good
>working negative which looks much more transparent to the eye than it is
>to UV light.
>
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>Jeffrey D. Mathias
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