Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "nakalele2" 
<floydd001@h...> wrote:
> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Steven 
> Karafyllakis" <steve@s...> wrote:
> > --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, 
> "nakalele2" 
> > <floydd001@h...> wrote:
> > 
> > A ferrotype print? As in producing a high gloss finish on glossy 
> > fiber-based paper? Or has the name been appropriated by 
> some 
> > alternative process? Please define!
> > 
> 
> 
> Sorry, I didn't know this term was used in different ways.
>   I am trying to get an "old school" tin type print on a sheet of 
> metal made from a digital file.  
>   thanks for any and all help,  doug

Right! So you're looking to reproduce the Daguerrotype or tintype 
effect from a digital file? whew!  Let's see... forget having it 
done, its almost certainly a do-it-yourselfer. I can think of 3 
approaches that might work. The first is to buy a tintype kit from 
(I think) Freestyle photo, or maybe Calumet? someone still sells 
them. The kit is basically a few pieces of emulsion-coated tin which 
you expose and process in a wet darkroom with a negative made from 
your file by a service bureau. 2nd: Find some suitable pieces of tin 
or aluminum (nothing ferrous) and hand coat it with Liquid Light 
emulsion, then expose and process in wet darkroom, again with neg 
from dig file.  3rd possibility: Print your image on the type of 
film that's intended to go on T-shirts, or overhead transparency 
film, or some flavor of back-laminating film, and laminate it to the 
tin sheets instead. Option 3 would be the easieast by far, but would 
probably yield the least convincing results. If you have a darkroom 
available, buying the kit would be the easiest, and you could 
probably make a neg by printing your (reversed)image on overhead 
transparency film in an inkjet printer. None of these methods are 
what you'd call quick'n'easy though, maybe some other list member 
can come up with easier alternatives?

Best Luck,

Steve Karafyllakis