Re: Printer for Digital Negatives (was: 1280 going berserkers)

The regular Epson ink has been working fine. I use a colorized negative
that essentially looks like a pyro negative. Keith Schreiber came up
with this particular workflow, and it is located here:

http://www.zianet.com/jkschreiber/articles/1280PyroDigiNegs.html

Except for this latest problem, I have had very good success with this
approach. I have measured the UV density range of these negatives at
about 1.8, which is perfect for palladium.

I am bumming about this latest problem, because I have this sneaking
suspicion that it will be more economic to buy a new printer than to
pay to have the old one fixed. I really hate this
use-it-until-it-breaks-and-then-toss-it electronic consumer culture
that has blossomed over the last 15 years. When was the last time it
made sense to have a 19 inch television fixed?

Clay
On Apr 8, 2005, at 8:28 AM, George L Smyth wrote:

> I have not had the success others have seen with digital negatives, as
> I have
> not been able to get the Dmax necessary to result in good prints. I
> am using
> Pictorico film with an old Epson printer and am thinking that perhaps
> the
> problem is with the printer and ink I am using.
>
> As I am beginning to have my own problems with my printer, it is time
> to look
> at a replacement.
>
> I am assuming that the Epson 1280 works well for digital negatives.
> Are you
> using a special ink or does "regular" ink work?
>
> Cheers -
>
> george
>
>
>
> --- Clay <wcharmon@wt.net> wrote:
>> In the last few weeks, my heretofore dependable epson 1280 is creating
>> striping on my diginegs. The striping shows up as areas of uneven
>> density that are more visible to the combination of platinum chemistry
>> and UV light than to the naked eye. The stripes have a frequency of
>> about 2-3mm, and show up in same direction that the print head travels
>> (i.e. perpendicular to the direction the paper travels through the
>> printer) FWIW, I am using Keith Schreiber's digineg workflow and
>> pictorico film.
>>
>> My question is this: Has anyone experienced or heard of printers
>> developing this problem as they age?
>>
>> My printer is now about 3 years old. And before you ask - yes, I ran
>> multiple cleaning cycles - yes, I changed the ink cartridge, and yes,
>> i
>> ran the alignment utility.
>>
>> Chuck it? Repair it? Make negs the old fashioned way?
>>
>> Thoughts welcomed.
>>
>> Clay
>>
>>
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Received on Fri Apr 8 07:41:23 2005