From: Darryl Baird (dbaird@umflint.edu)
Date: 04/11/02-11:06:35 PM Z
Chris,
In graduate school I made "film" positives on transparency film through a 600 dpi
laser printer and made very nice photopolymer plates and subsequent prints. If you
have access to a 1200 dpi laser the results (I'd imagine) would be pretty swell.
Text, especially nice crisp Postscript fonts at 1200 dpi, would be very easy with
a laser printer. I think the nature of stochastic screens and inkjet "dots" would
be inferior for text. I've also used imagesetter positives and they are overkill,
even for images.
I've used letterpress and etching presses with these plates with satisfactory
results.
-Darryl
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Chris Nielsen wrote:
> > Chris,
> >
> > I have a friend here in Santa Fe who is doing precisely that. He starts
> > with a Nikon 990 (?) digital camera and winds up with 12x16" prints. They are
> > amazing. His work is more graphic than photographic, but he has the process
> > nailed. He just finished a week-long workshop here with Dan B.
> > He's not on the list but I'll have him E-Mail you if he is interested.
> > You mention letterpress printing. I don't know what kind of press you are
> > referring to, but you will need all the pressure that an etching press can
> > deliver, to get fine results.
> >
> > Bob
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