Re: potassium vs. ammonium citrate pd developer

Yes I did, Sandy, and it shorted out, and would cost $400 to replace it. I
tried to locate a new one, but the only place I could was a place that I
could not verify if it was reputable, and given my Nikon D200 horror story,
I will not do that again. A refurbished one is in the neighborhood of $500,
so after several weeks of angsting about this, I decided to bite the bullet
and get the 2400. Mind you, that means I have to recalibrate ALL my curves
(VDB, cyano, 4 gum, palladium, argyro, salt, and silver).

Anyone who has a 2200 is blessed....

Now, as far as the 2400:
Upon the first printing of the CDRP in Nelson's system, I was shocked to
find that the black ink does not hold back as much light as the colored inks
(e.g. G255B0) right next to it! I got paper white with a 6 minute exposure
with palladium with no having to up ink density. So, in my book, the 2400
has the 2200 beat if you are using colored inks.

Also, Mark Nelson said that digital BW prints with the 2400 are awesome, but
of course I never do things the easy way....it'll be a cold day in hell
before I print a digital BW print, darkroom junkie that I am (doesn't mean I
don't LOVE digiprints).
Chris
----- Original Message -----
From: "Sandy King" <sanking@clemson.edu>
To: <alt-photo-process-l@usask.ca>
Sent: Sunday, April 09, 2006 4:59 PM
Subject: Re: potassium vs. ammonium citrate pd developer

> Chris,
>
> Did you not have a 2200 before the 2400? For digital negatives, is there
> any advantage to the 2400?
>
> Sandy
>
>
>
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>>OHMAGOSH john,
>>The 2400 is wonderful. I just finished printing my 10th and final 13x19
>>negative and ran out of ink on one of the cartridges....and I've printed 9
>>of those negs in palladium and the ink is extremely dense, except for the
>>black ink which is less dense than the 2200. However, I am not using black
>>ink, only colored inks. So, as far as I am concerned, the printer is
>>PERFECT (except for the price--$800).
>>Chris
>>
>>>Chris,
>>>I read somewhere recently that pigment inks as on the R2400 function much
>>>less satisfactorily than dye based inks for digital negatives. For this
>>>reason I was going to hang onto my 1290 for the time being, to dedicate
>>>to transparency printing. As a newbie to alternative processes, I was
>>>wondering what the concensus of the forum was on this subject
>>>John Fontana
>
Received on Sun Apr 9 17:13:34 2006