Re: ConeTech Digital Negatives

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From: Nick Makris (nick@mcn.org)
Date: 06/16/03-08:42:34 AM Z


Don, Christina and all,

It is extremely important to anyone trying to fully understand what is being
said in a thread such as this one, that they know what kind of ink is being
used. The issue becoomes infinite in nature when you add the printer and
substrate, not to mention software, curves, OS, platform, etc. I'll settle
for the specific ink in this case. Mfg., Quad/Hex, Color/Black/Gray. The
printer helps define this.

Many thanks,

n

----- Original Message -----
From: "Christina Z. Anderson" <zphoto@montana.net>
To: <alt-photo-process-l@skyway.usask.ca>
Sent: Monday, June 16, 2003 5:49 AM
Subject: Re: ConeTech Digital Negatives

> Don,
> Can't comment on the thinness of your neg, although I saw Dan's
> colorized neg at APIS in 1999 and it was barely there, but that was the
> orangey colored one, not the Cone inks.
> But I did want to add to the below that I found a cheap OHP at Office
> Max--Apollo brand Ink Jet Printer Transparency Film, 50 sheets for $20,
and
> it, too, does not scratch or smudge or run and works just fine. I
printed,
> let it dry, and then 5 minutes later was exposing my cyano. They also
sell
> OHP 'envelopes' to store your printed sheets in. Of course, I only saw it
> in 8 1/2 x 11--don't figure offices would need 13x19 OHP :)
> Chris
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Don Bryant" <dsbryant@mindspring.com>
> To: <alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca>
> Sent: Sunday, June 15, 2003 8:58 PM
> Subject: ConeTech Digital Negatives
>
>
> > I've just finished printing my first digital negative using and Epson
1160
> > with the ConeTech Piezography driver, MIS FSN with Eboni black ink and
> > Pictorico OHP film. I applied Dan Burholder's ConeTech Curve for
> > platinum/palladium on the inverted image and output via the Piezography
> > driver with Dan's dot density recommendation of 105 and Unsupported
Media
> as
> > the media type.
> >
> > The negative produced looks very very thin, which I was sort of
surprised
> to
> > see. Is this normal? I would think that a negative this thin would print
> > very quickly but will the tonal scale look normal in the print. The
shadow
> > areas, 90 to 100% in the positive, look almost transparent in the
> negative.
> >
> > A print of the inverted imaged with Burkholder curve applied does look
> weak
> > and anemic but detail is visible through out the print.
> >
> > Is all of this normal or should I expect to do some major curve
tweaking?
> >
> > Also contary to what I've read here on this list the ink seems to be
> smudge
> > resistant and doesn't rub off.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Don Bryant
> >
> >
>
>
>


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