Digital BW, The Print

Aside from my not-too-positive experience with film recorder output, 
I also took a swing at printing digital negs on an Epson 1280 using 
the OEM dye inks and Pictorico transparency film - www.pictorico.com 
which is currently the front runner for this use. It's a bit tricky, 
you can't put enough ink on the film to get a normal grey-scale neg, 
but if you print it with a strong red-orange cast it increases the 
spectral density of the neg enough to print on silver paper. Under a 
lupe the negs looked awfull, you could see a lot more printer 
texture than on a print, but they printed better than they looked. 
However, I felt the quality and sharpness would never equal a normal 
silver print. I do intend to try it fairly soon to print Liquid 
Light, and the consensus is that it works well enough for most other 
alternative processes where the roughness of paper and emulsion hide 
the flaws of the negative.

Best luck,

Steve Karafyllakis

http://stevekphoto.com