Digital BW, The Print

Mark Romine wrote:

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>>Martin Wesley wrote:
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>>The trick will be getting the right one..
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>Even trickier is applying them to paper without dust, air bubbles or
>brush marks.
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Certainly...

It will need to be a clean room environment.. At least as clean as any 
serious photog's darkroom for enlarger work..

Bubbles are gonna be dependent upon forcing the epoxy into the paper.. 
 That's technique and it's going to take a lot of practice..

It will be a labor intensive process..

Referring back to the discussions on PCs under "4x5 scanning,"  I can 
hear it coming ---- "photographers don't have time for it..  it's far 
better to simply pay someone else to frame it behind glass.." After all, 
a photog's time is too valuable to waste on these ancillary tasks..  ;-)

Speaking of which,, for anyone REALLY looking to reduce workflow, I'll 
be reviewing a new site that does restoration an PShop work  ( 
 http://www.image-edit.com),  as soon as I find a good image in need of 
restoration, repair, or editing etc.  They've apparently locked up a LOT 
of market segment from minilabs internationally, etc.. ... I'll let 
people know how it goes..

For full-time production-oriented photogs, like wedding and many 
portrait people, this may be a great way to reduce the length of the 
in-house workflow...  Akin , most recently to using a lab for printing R 
prints (and in the 20s/30s to the banks of young women who did hand 
coloring)...

Keith
 



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