From: Nick Makris (nick@mcn.org)
Date: 02/11/03-05:44:11 PM Z
Christina, I have tried them all including some inks from Italy and it has
always boiled down to two problems. 1) the ink doesn't dry/adhere and the
image is very delicate, and 2) there is not enough density in the ink. I
could live with 2), but 1) always seems to be present at least to a very
little extent. I know there are other methods, like Dan B's spectral
density, but this is a kind of purist search for a one printer operation
that can make both b/w prints on art papers and b/w negs on a clear
substrate. If I ever find the combination, I will buy a lifetime supply -
Ha!
Thanks for the info.
N
----- Original Message -----
From: "Christina Z. Anderson" <zphoto@montana.net>
To: <alt-photo-process-l@skyway.usask.ca>
Sent: Tuesday, February 11, 2003 3:30 PM
Subject: Re: More digital negatives
> Nick,
> I am not an expert, and probably well below you at this stage on this
> topic, but I just winged out a neg on my Epson 800 onto Pictorico and
> printed it immediately in cyanotype, using Sam Wang's cyanotype
conversion,
> and the negative looks VERY thin but it actually made a pretty cool print.
> I could scan it and send it to you offlist if you would like. The fact
that
> I could just take a 6 meg image and invert it, do a little monkeying in
the
> channels, and then immediately print it makes me feel it is not so outa
> line. However, I do not have one of those straight black/grey inksets I
> think you are talking about, e.g. Cone or MIS, or some other.
> I also am having a service bureau print up two of my scans to
> imagesetter negs ($12 each, 8x10). So this week I have 2 of my 35mm
images
> enlarged onto Bergger 200 film, Maco Genius film, and now imagesetter
film,
> and will compare the three. But I also am in search of a good digital neg
> alternative I can do at home without buying a new printer.
> Chris
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Nick Makris" <nick@mcn.org>
> To: <alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca>
> Sent: Tuesday, February 11, 2003 3:03 PM
> Subject: More digital negatives
> > Let me ask a question that I have asked more than once previously on
more
> than one list - a question to which, I have never received a definitive
and
> positive answer.
> > Is anyone using any of the smaller (now somewhat older) Epson printers
> (11nn, 12nn or 15nn) for successfully making digital negatives on a clear
> substrate with a BLACK/GRAY inkset? The printers are without a doubt
> capable of printing the necessary quality, however, as has been discussed
> time anD again, there doesn't seem to be an inkset that is compatible with
> any clear substrate.
> > Comments much appreciated...................> TIA, Nick
> >
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