Digital BW, The Print

Lynn, I have really found your posts interesting especially with what 
you are trying to achieve as this is my goal. I am prepared to try and 
give a dedicated machine I go rather than swapping inks around. You're 
mentioning of the Tri-X film brought back a lot of memories. I was 
always in Ilford person and still will occasionally shoot a roll of FP4.

There is one thing that digital printing will never replace and that is 
the excitement in the darkroom of watching an image develope slowly 
enough to make you wonder if you are of achieve the results you are 
looking for. There is no excitement in watching a printer print and 
image, best to go and a cup of coffee.

Keep up the posts as I be very interested to see how things go for you 
because there are some parallels in my situation. What I wanted was just 
a printout drafts that did not have a color cast but now I'm looking at 
the primary result of a digital printer. I have not found any 
photographers locally that use dedicated black-and-white printers so 
possibly this could be a reason why I don't quite like the look of their 
image as compared to gelatin/silver.

Robert...
On 10/01/2013 20:00, Lynn wrote:
>
> Yes, I agree with you. I have ordered the 1430 and MIS color refill 
> kit and will start with black-only first. If I am not satisfied with 
> the quality of the BW I can always shift to a full black refill ink 
> set--to be decided.
>
> In my darkroom days I always liked the gritty, grainy street look of 
> the Tri-X prints that several photographers have said that black-only 
> prints remind them of. So I'm hopeful it might a good fit-at least a 
> good start point.
>
> I've read Paul's work--in fact his papers got me started on this whole 
> trip. I also appreciate knowing about your blog and the info on 
> BW/1400. I did a quick read and suspect it will be a good how-to source.
> Thanks for all your input.
> Lynn
>



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