Digital BW, The Print

To Ken and everyone else who responded on and offlist - thank you for the input, the 
leads and the links.  I still have found nobody who can print 30x40 silver or platinum, 
for hire, and after many talks with my client, using his resources, I am sort of excited 
to try this myself.  It does seem like an opportunity of a lifetime to be funded to try to 
do this.  I may succeed, or I may fail, but I am given the chance to give it a shot.  I will 
keep the group posted on how it goes, for those who are interested.

Tony

Tony Caltabiano
Higher Place Studio
www.higherplacestudio.com


--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Ken Carney" 
<kcarney1@c...> wrote:
> 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@d...]
> 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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