Digital BW, The Print

Benoît,

By all means keep us all posted on the project!

Great website by the way and a wonderful collection of B&W portraits.

As the resident coating guy I have to ask how you applied the 
Suregard Clear Gloss to the prints?

Thanks,
Martin



--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., Benoit Malphettes 
<Benoit@s...> wrote:
> Garry,
> I am doing some tests with A&I Color Lab here in Los Angeles that 
could
> completely change my way of working.
> If it works out the way I hope it will, I will still shoot 
conventional film
> on 4x5 to 8x10 film; it will then be scanned by the lab and we will
> digitally retouch it at the studio then back to the lab where they 
will
> print this file on a LightJet. We have done a test with a 40x60 
inch color
> print and were quite impressed by the quality. We did a test with a 
B&W
> outputted to a LighJet and were disappointed, no deep black and 
overall an
> RC print feel to it. So now I am exploring the piezo/quad inkjet 
solution
> and I am very encouraged by what I see. A friend of mine here just 
got a
> 7000 and we are planning to print the same B&W neg. By then we will 
have the
> same neg printed  30x30 on fiber and on a  LightJet and a 24x24 on 
the 7000
> . All color prints we deliver are lacquered (Suregard Clear Gloss) 
and we
> did lacquer some piezo prints on EAM and it removes the "fragility" 
factor
> of the upper layer of those prints and deepens the blacks 
beautifully.
> If you are interested I will be glad to share the results as we 
progress. 
> And btw, incorporating in my daily routine the attentive reading of 
this
> newsgroup has been extremely helpful. 
> Benoît
> http://studiocharis.com
> 
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