Re: Pictorico Large format Discontinued

Jon
I am surprized by your statement that you could not get pigmented inks to
work for you. What kind of negative is required for your process and what
was the "disaster".
Marek M

> You mentioned Dura-Trans...I was talking to a guy today about using it for
> transparencies in polymer photogravure. Neither of us were sure it would
> work well since Duratrans is a color process. Generally my transparencies
> have been inkjet using only black pigmented ink or imagesetter output. My
> experiments using colored pigmented inkjet output have been disasterous.
> You say you use DuraTrans though. Should I gamble the $35 and try it?
>
> Jon
>
> On Fri, 7 May 2004, Craig Zammiello wrote:
>
>> Welcome to the wonderful world of corporate biz.
>> Bottom line is the bottom line... companies are not going to produce a
>> product for a small amount of profit. Period.
>> I have gone mad for the last 25 years trying to keep up and substitute
>> materials for photogravure. Man I'm tired of it!
>> Thank god for Durst Lambda outputs and Dura-Trans film!
>> Craig Z.
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Jon Lybrook" <jon@terabear.com>
>> To: <alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca>
>> Sent: Thursday, May 06, 2004 7:45 PM
>> Subject: Pictorico Large format Discontinued
>>
>>
>> > Maybe I missed the thread, but I just called Pictorico and found they
>> > discontinued their large format OHP film! I'm considering purchasing
>> the
>> Epson
>> > 7600, but wanted to confirm how much the Pictorico media for that
>> would
>> cost.
>> > Turns out we can't get it anymore.
>> >
>> > I then called photo warehouse and found they have media that will work
>> with the
>> > 7600. Has anyone tried the Photo Warehouse stock in a large format
>> Epson
>> printer?
>> >
>> > Jon
>> >
>> >
>>
>>
>
>
Received on Fri May 7 11:06:30 2004