Digital BW, The Print

I also made an attempt at digital negatives with a 1270 with OEM inks and an 1160 using Piezo.  I sealed the Piezo inks to the Pictorico film with a coat of lacquer thinned 100% (fast drying) via an airbrush.  I exchanged a few E-mails with Dan and, at the time, he was experimenting with the same process using a canned matte lacquer.  The Piezo looked promising for a while but I was intermittently fighting the micro banding issue.  I found, and as Paul Roark mentioned, that the inks on the Picto film were not linear.  I could never get a satisfactory print from a subject in a white to off white lace blouse against a dark background -- just couldn't get a decent range from highlight to shadows.  But, for example, I could get a terrific print (using 1270) of the "Adobe Gal" and step wedge included on the CD that came with the book.  I abandoned the effort when I sold off all my darkroom equipment last year.

		William Garcia