From: Gokhan Erdem (trichromy@yahoo.com)
Date: 09/17/02-07:19:43 AM Z
Hi again,
Think that almost every monochrome material you use in
photograhy, is negative. This knowledge helped me very
much.
May be you can find a cheaper way and you write me.
See you all.
Gokhan
--- Shannon Stoney <sstoney@pdq.net> wrote:
> I am getting ready to make some polymer
> photogravures. At the print
> shop where I'm working, the other people send their
> negatives to an
> imagesetting place to be scanned and then put on
> film. The results
> are very good, but it's rather expensive. I am
> wondering if there is
> a way to do this in a less expensive way. One
> possibility is to scan
> the negatives myself on the flat bed scanner in this
> shop and try to
> print them out on pictorico film or some such. But
> my previous
> attempts to make digital negatives (in this case it
> would be a
> positive) were not good due to banding with the
> printers I had
> available to me.
>
> So I am wondering about making film positives
> directly. If you have
> an 8x10 negative, say, couldn't you contact print it
> onto another
> piece of the same film? Some of the negatives I
> want to use are 4x5;
> I could make smaller prints of those, or possibly
> get access to an
> enlarger and enlarge them onto film. But let's say
> you're contact
> printing an 8x10 negative to make a film positive.
> If you use another
> sheet of Tri X for the positive, it will be very
> fast, so the
> exposure will have to be very fast. If you are
> exposing with a 7 1/2
> watt lightbulb, I think it would be hard to get the
> exposure short
> enough. Am I correct to worry about this?
>
> Anyway, I'm interested in hearing about how other
> people resolved
> this. In a way, it's just an issue of making a copy
> negative, or an
> enlarged negative, except that it's a positive; but
> then also there's
> the fact that the photopolymer plates probably have
> different curves
> from other processes, and I don't know yet what
> they are.
>
> --shannon
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