Re: price of pt/pd printing

Chris -

This is the reason I work with Van Dyke. My prints sometimes get confused with
pt/pd, which begs the question I posed several years ago on this list, why
print pt/pd? There is no way I can afford platinum, and Van Dyke allows me to
make as many mistakes as I do.

Cheers -

george

--- "Christina Z. Anderson" <zphoto@bellsouth.net> wrote:
> Good eeeevveeeening,
>
> Well, while Dan B. is chitchatting away to Europe on free internet phones, I
> am having a ball printing palladium. After gum printing for 2 years solid,
> I am taking a breather with this ironic idea of the blurry family photo
> album. I decided I was sick and tired of happy smiley family albums (when
> dysfunctional families abound), and that I would make my own album that
> would last 400 years--as pt/pd would--for all posterity to see (probably
> only to see how weird their great great great great grandma was). So I'm
> printing a bunch of snapshotty type imagery, blurry, angsty, unpoetic and
> the like, in 4x6 size, tipped into a black handmade photo album with photo
> corners. Sam thinks I am nuts, I'm sure.
>
> So as I was basking in my oh-so-very-postmodern irony of printing **this**
> type of imagery in pt/pd, I suddenly freaked about just how much this will
> ultimately cost. I sat with calculator, droppers, ml graduates, anything to
> avoid facing my final thesis corrections.
>
> This is what I figured, and I am asking all you perfect(ly normal) pt/pd
> printers out there if these calcs seem reasonable:
> A 4x6 print with magic brush takes 13 drops (i love that magic brush).
> A price per drop (B and S pricing at the small quantity 25 ml price) was:
> 2 cents ferric,
> 13 cents palladium,
> and 6 cents Na2.
>
> Thus a 4x6 costs 96 cents. At the 100 ml price it is only 64 cents.
> Heck, that isn't bad at all, given diginegs with curves that give
> predictable prints!
> So my blurry family photo album will really only cost me about 4 times as
> much as if I had it printed at Walmart! And it'll last 8 times as long!
>
> Of course this doesn't include the price of ammonium citrate, citric acid,
> EDTA, Pictorico, paper, depreciation of the magic brush, replacing worn BL
> bulbs, electricity, time, ink, depreciation of my computer and my
> printer....
>
> Deep thoughts for the night--I really should have gone to bed long ago....
> Chris
>
>
>

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Received on Fri Apr 8 07:21:30 2005