Digital BW, The Print

Tony, presumably your client is getting the digital file for inkjet printing
by scanning the plate.  You may be able to have a scan output to a film neg
suitable for enlarging (not imagesetter) - say an 8x10" neg that could be
enlarged using conventional darkroom gear.  Writing to 4x5" negs is fairly
common, but don't know about larger.  Of course, you'll probably shoot
yourself after trying to handle heavy fiber paper that large in
chemistry...but it can be done.  However, turning to pt/pd you may have a
real challenge.  I personally have never seen a pt/pd print larger than
20x24 image size, but they're probably out there.  If anyone would know how,
these are the people who would:

Dick Sullivan http://www.bostick-sullivan.com/

David Kennedy http://www.davidmichaelkennedy.com/

Tom Millea http://www.tommillea.com/

Sounds interesting.  Maybe you could let the group know where the prints
could be seen.

Regards,

  --Ken Carney
    www.kencarney.com

-----Original Message-----
From: Tony Caltabiano [mailto:calpen1@...]
Sent: Saturday, November 08, 2003 10:24 PM
To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [Digital BW] one of my customers wants silver and platinum -
big


Hello group,
I hope the collective wisdom here can help me out.  I have been doing
giclees for a
client for quite awhile now who does fine art wet plate collodion.
His smallest prints
are 16x20 - and are up to 30x40.  He has decided that although giclee
is his main
medium, he would also like to have the same images printed the same
sizes in silver
and platinum/paladium for the customers/galleries that would prefer
not to have
giclees.
On the digital end I know this would pretty much involve getting
imagesetter negs
made really big for contact printing/make negs myself on the Epson
9600.  I have
Burkholder's book, and I am confident that I could get that whole
process nailed
down.  But I am seriously at a loss on how to handle this on the
darkroom side of
things.
He has already arranged to BUILD me a darkroom nearby.  While I am a
fine art
photog myself, I send everything through the epson 9600, not the
darkroom.  I am
not very skilled at printing the traditional way, and have never even
touched platinum.

I live just outside of Los Angeles, and I can't find a BW lab who can
do anything bigger
than 20x24.  Platinum printers are hard to find, period.  So I am
having trouble being
able to outsource it, and I am feeling like I am in way over my head
doing it myself.

Can anyone with experience with the larger side of printing offer me
any ideas of
where to turn, or what books to look at?  I would assume that
printing 24x30's and
larger to hang on gallery walls is not an easy undertaking?

Thanks in advance for guidance.

Tony

Tony Caltabiano
Higher Place Studio
www.higherplacestudio.com



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