Re: inkjet negatives

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From: Ricardo Wildberger Lisboa (wildberger@svn.com.br)
Date: 08/05/03-09:46:07 PM Z


Kerik,

What?s a Pyro-inkjet ? Is it an ink brand? Transparency brand? Never heard
of it. Are there any sites on the web where I could get informations about
it? The only Pyro I know is the developer. Thanks for any help.

Ric.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Kerik" <Kerik@kerik.com>
To: <alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca>
Sent: Tuesday, August 05, 2003 8:52 PM
Subject: Re: inkjet negatives

> Hey Mateo!
>
> At APIS (you shoulda been there!) I saw some palladium prints that Keith
> Schreiber made from Pyro-colored inkjet negs, as well as a couple of Sandy
> King's Pd-toned Kallitypes made from negs output with the Epson 2000P.
> These prints were all in the 11x14 to 12x18 range. I believe Keith's
> originals were 8x10 and Sandy's were 5x7. The prints were beautiful.
> Smoooooth tones and as sharp and detailed as any sane person would want.
> I've started having some success with Pyro-inkjets on my Epson 1280
printer
> after fighting with some banding problems. I also just picked up an Epson
> 2000P CHEAP, so I'll be trying Sandy's approach next. I know you can't
tell
> much from a JPG, but the opening image on my website (www.kerik.com) is a
> gum-over-platinum made with a Pyro-inkjet neg from a 6 megapixel Canon 10D
> file. The original print is really quite nice.
>
> Is it 'the same' as a print from an in-camera neg? No. Does that matter?
> No.
> Could I have gotten this shot with a 12x20 camera?
> Not a chance.
>
> I have no plans to give up film, but it's nice to have more options at my
> disposal. You're too young to be a stick-in-the-mud! (insert smiley face
> here).
>
> Later,
> Kerik
>
>
> > I know this is sort of redundant, but my question goes like this.
> >
> > Can I make 8"x10" Platinum/Palladium prints from inkjet negatives that
> > look the same as prints made from my 8"x10" in camera negatives on
Arches
> > Platine. I asked the kid at Best Buy while looking at printers and he
> > didn't know.
> >
> > In the past discussions I seem to detect a lot of buts. "These inkjet
> > negs are really great and print fantastic, but......."
> > Still true?
> >
> > mateo
>
>


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