From: Sandy King (sanking@CLEMSON.EDU)
Date: 10/16/03-10:54:07 AM Z
As far as I am concerned the Epson 2200 is the best printer for
making digital negatives. I saw the note from Perry about not being
able to build up enough density with the 2200 to get good highlights
but I have to assume his problem is media, not the printer. The 2200
is widely used with Pictorico and with this media is capable of
making excellent negatives with a high enough density range for
palladium printing. I have to assume either that Perry used some
other media that won't hold the pigmented ink of the Epson 2200 as
well as Pictorico, or if not, something is wrong with his printer.
I used the Epson 2000P, the immediate predecessor of the 2200, and it
too is capable of making excellent negatives for digital printing
with plenty of density for printing with alt processes.
Sandy King
>Hi,
>
>Thank you to everyone for sharing all this information on A-P-P.
>
>Is the Epson 2200 the best printer to buy for producing digital negs? I
>have my doubts after reading all the messages recently.
>
>Please advise.
>
>Trevor Thomsen.
>Zimbabwe.
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Perry" <perry@vivalarevolution.com>
>To: <alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca>
>Sent: Wednesday, October 15, 2003 8:01 PM
>Subject: Re: Digital cyanotype negs
>
>
>> The 1280 uses different inks and they have more density, but It is
>possible
>> that using different colors would work. I'm going to give it a try.
>>
>> > From: shannon stoney <sstoney@pdq.net>
>> > Reply-To: alt-photo-process-l@skyway.usask.ca
>> > Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2003 07:05:15 -0500
>> > To: alt-photo-process-l@skyway.usask.ca
>> > Subject: Re: Digital cyanotype negs
>> >
>> >> I just recently started making digital negs for my cyanotypes on the
>2200
>> >> and I haven't been able to build up enough density in the blacks to get
>a
>> >> good white in my prints. Anyone have any suggestions for me as to what
>I
>> >> could do to try and get denser blacks for better whites in my prints?
>> >
>> >
>> > Don't know if Rocky is still on this list, but we saw some cyanotypes
>> > he had made from digital negs and they looked great. His digital
>> > negs were printed in orange rather than black on the 1280 I think.
>> > Maybe if you tried orange? I think Dan calls these "spectral density"
>> > negatives.
>> >
>> > --shannon
>> >
>>
>>
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