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Re: [Digital BW] Moving from Chemical to Digital

2003-12-01 by Mark Hahn

If you are willing to spend some time up front calibrating your 
printer, ,materials and chemical process you can make fantastic 
contact prints from inkjet output and that means using a cheap 
printer and hassle-free dye based inks... isn't popular on this list, 
but seems like a good intermediate step that will give "real 
darkroom" looking prints

mark

PS  ummm, I'm too lazy to try it;)

...
> > >Cleaning printer heads just doesn't do it for me.
> > >So I guess my question is:  Is there a stock off the shelf 
printer with
> > >stock off the shelf ink supply in nifty little plug in modules 
that will
> > >allow me to come close to duplicating my dark room work assuming 
that I've
> > >done a good job in the image capture and photoshop manipulation.
> > >If the answer is no, I'm quite willing to go back to the dark 
room and wait.
...

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