From: Sandy King (sanking@clemson.edu)
Date: 04/04/02-08:49:20 PM Z
Nick wrote:
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>I have been experimenting (here I go) with various substrates and
>inks/methods/workflows/curves/actions and to date, only the Pictorico film
>seems like the way to go. It doesn't accept pigment based inks and I have
>just yesterday changed to a Quad Black dye based ink with archival qualities
>(whatever that means). I am collaborating with at least two others from
>this list and the results, as I said, will be posted.
I have an Epson 2000P and have been experimenting with Pictorico OHP
film toward making digital negatives for carbon printing. The
Pictorico certainly takes the pigments from the Epson cartridges and
is capable of registering a negative with a relatively high density
range, easily up to DR 2.0 as measured by my transmission
densitometer, with no smearing and no need for spray. I am making the
experiments with the 6-color mode of the Epson 2000P,but printing a
mostly neutral tone physical density negative. Although I have not
yet gotten all the adjustments down to my satisfaction I am feeling
very confident that with time I will get the right density and curve
for making excellent physical density negatives with the Epson 2000P
and Pictorico. The main consideration from the start for me was to
find a combination that would get enough pigment on the film to
provide the relatively high density range that I need for carbon, and
there is no question but that this combination allows that. After
all, when you measure with a densitometer, opacity is opacity and if
neutral tone is very easy to understand.
BTW, I am to this point been using the curve supplied by Dan on his
website for the Epson 2000P.
Sandy King
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