RE: price of pt/pd printing

Well, to me Vandykes are not as good as pt/pd prints in shadows. In my
Vandyke prints shadows are often compressed but I get extremely nice and
delicate shadow detail with my Ziatypes. Please note that both are
printed using digital negatives (of different types: Vandykes with
imagesetter negatives, Ziatypes with inkjet negatives). I think price
for pt/pd sensitizer is very unimportant when compared to the price of
the paper you're printing on. So, I don't see pt/pd printing as "too
costly". My quadtone inkjet prints cost as much as (if not more than) my
Ziatypes.

Regards,
Loris.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: George L Smyth [mailto:glsmyth@yahoo.com]
> Sent: Friday, April 08, 2005 4:21 PM
> To: alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca
> Subject: 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
Received on Fri Apr 8 08:32:35 2005