Digital BW, The Print

In a message dated 04/15/2002 2:10:15 AM Pacific Daylight Time, 
julianthomas@... writes:


> Hi all,
> Has anyone tried outputting a PS file to a film recorder to get a 5x4 neg??
> 
Before quadtone black printing came along, I used to do it quite alot. To 
save money I would collage 4 4x5 files on to a single 8x10 file and then cut 
them down myself. Phil Baird has some tests on his web site and he probably 
is getting negs as good as they can be for black and white. There are not 
many labs doing this in black and white,. It doesn't take a huge file, 20-40 
mb was enough at the time for a 4x5 neg. Your limited by the output res of 
the film recorder. The fire 1000 that I used to use was 1000 dpi so an 8x10 
was about 80mb. If you use color output machines even if they write their 
data to t-max film you'll pay triple as they charge by file size and many use 
rgb data. Many took several tries to get the neg to print right in the 
darkroom put I actually made a couple 20x24's. Piezo style ink printing blows 
them away though!
Steve M.
http://www.xray-art.com



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