Re: Digital negatives for gum printing

[Katharine Thayer <kthayer@pacifier.com>]

I meant to add that if you want to go that direction I'd advise sending
it out to imagesetter.
kt



Katharine Thayer wrote:
> 
> Judy Seigel wrote:
> >
> 
> >
> > So maybe someone who ONLY wants a printer for negatives should get an
> > oversize laser printer with high resolution?
> 
> No, don't go there, I've already been there and it wasn't pretty. The
> bigger, higher-resolution printer I got was the same brand as my beloved
> old 300dpi printer but they'd changed something between models and it
> never worked well for my purpose. I've forgotten the details now, what
> the problem was. I paid enough thousands of dollars for it that they
> swapped it out for me a couple of times and then left me to my fate
> saying that if I was determined to use it for something other than its
> intended purpose, I was on my own. It prints text beautifully, and
> weighs about 300 pounds. Luckily, it was about the time I gave up on the
> laser printer that Epson brought out the first Photo stylus printer, the
> first inkjet printer I didn't hate the output from, and I was able to
> switch over to inkjet for my digital negatives.
> 
> Katharine