From: Thor Bols (thorbols@hotmail.com)
Date: 07/10/01-01:51:28 PM Z
Frivolity? It depends on what you DO with you inkjet printer. Jeffrey has
selected the "photo" half of "alt-photo" to use as his filter, citing
photosensitivity as a requirement. Fair enough. But I have always looked
more at the "alt" half. Most of us here use alternative processes, but even
if we DO use silver-gelatin we might use it in novel ways. There are novel
ways to use the inkjet printer, as well. Richard Sullivan recently
mentioned a woman that was using inkjet printers to print on some kind of
mica covered paper. I don't know about you, but that sounds pretty "alt" to
me, and it doesn't soundfrivolous.
As for me, I like to load my Epsons up with cyanotype or Van Dyke Brown
solutions (sometimes both at once), and then just dry, expose, and develop
the result. Its an easy way to make a true "alt print" without having to
mess with a negative.
BTW, if anyone decides to try this, make sure you flush your print heads
very liberally when you're done. Those salts are very mean to printers!
>From: rgw@mediaone.net
>Reply-To: alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca
>To: alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca
>Subject: Re: keeping on topic
>Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2001 15:23:26 -0400
>
>If it is just about spraying ink (21st century Jackson Pollock?) then
>shouldn't
>Inkjet then be relegated to some painting list some where?
>
>Seriously though, the Inkjet crowd has several nice lists of their own to
>play on.
>This seems to be the only place to go for platinum, palladium, gum,
>cyanotype etc.
>Why can't we leave it at that?
>
>For those of us who have tried the inkjet approach and found it wanting, it
>is nice
>to have a place where such frivolity is avoided as the consumerist
>diversion that it
>is and traditional methods are still respected.
>
>Guy
>
>Richard Morris wrote:
>
> > Think about it! Ink jet printing is merely another way of applying
>colours
> > to a surface. Only rather than use a brush you use nozzles - like
> > mechanical cake icing. Its what goes into making it than counts.
> >
> > On Tue, 10 Jul 2001 09:49:18 -0400 "Jeffrey D. Mathias"
> > <jeffrey.d.mathias@worldnet.att.net> wrote:
> >
> > > Bob Maxey wrote:
> > > > >>Does anyone consider inkjet prints to be alt-photo?
> > > > ... To answer your question, ALT is anything other than
>conventional silver
> > > > systems we have had for decades. Ink-jet is an Alternative process
>in my
> > > > view. ...
> > >
> >
> > Richard Morris
> > Brunel University, UK
> > dtsrrlm@brunel.ac.uk
>
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