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Re: paper for digital negatives
On Fri, 17 Mar 2000, Andre Fuhrmann wrote:
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> Yes, Judy, vellum sounds right. The Canson paper doesn't have a yellowish
> cast but I have seen some brands that do; perhaps the hue is also a
> function of aging. Anyway, a slight cast should have no effect on the
> printing results.
Andre, would you tell us again what kind of printer you're using? The HP?
I haven't bought that "new" printer yet because.... among other questions.
One problem I've had all along (among a bunch of new ones) printing waxed
paper negs from my LASER PRINTER is that, even waxed, the paper isn't
translucent enough for good re-register of the tricolor separations (which
is what I'm using the printer for). The vellum would almost certainly be
more translucent...
The "new" printer, BTW, has to be larger than 8-1/2 by 14 inches -- which
so far only the Epson seems to do at under $1000...
> I found no trace of these problems with the vellum I used. There is a
> cheaper kind of tracing paper though that sometimes comes in rolls and is
> very thin. To tell the goat from the sheep hold the paper against light.
> The good vellum should have almost no grain. It should feel hard and not
> the least brittle. I wouldn't trust in vellum lighter than 90g/sqm. Just
> made another neg that I have also on two kinds of film for comparison. I
> find the result vvvery satisfactory: nicely crisp, no smear and a very
> even tonal scale. For multiple gum printing it should be just as good as a
> film negative.
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> Andre
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