Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, sdmey4@a... wrote:
> In a message dated 4/17/2004 5:34:29 PM Pacific Daylight Time, 
> jimhayes@f... writes:
> Snip>
> > I've gotten myself into a odd situation in the last year
> > or so: I'm now doing color, b&w, desturated color, heavy tints, and
> > even b&w with spot color- well small areas of print that have color in
> > them. I've been waiting just under a year for IP to release version 6.
> > I was told last May about combo b&w/color in one print feature. So I'm
> > doing prints with the b&w part having metamerism, in hopes I can go
> > back and re-print. I didn't think it would take this long (I was told
> > late summer 2003 initially for ver 6).
> > 
> > Jim, Yes I noticed ;0  This is a very exciting area for
combination BW and 
> color on the same print. I have been aware of your work since back
in the LVT 
> days.
> I'm about to throw out 3k worth of digital LVT negs, they just don't
cut it 
> compared to what I can get now. There Is Pro out here that has a pre
release 
> Version of IP6 and he is doing a similiar thing. Warm colored sepia
flesh tones 
> while the rest of the print is 
> neutral BW. Apparently this software is doing the trick for him and
he has 
> tried everything including lightjet.
> Steve M
> 

I didn't know I had that many visitors to my site. I need to update it
again, I've got some new stuff.

Between 1994 and about 1998-1999 I used an LVT to get digital negs to
print in darkroom. I should have contact printed them instead of
enlarged them a bit. Even if I contact printed though, they would have
come out blurry because of going through two iterations of film: the
original scan of the camera shot negs mixed in photoshop followed by
the grain of the LVT neg.

Horrible way to work. The LVT negs scratched terribly for some reason,
 and if you made a mistake (needed to redo the image in pshop tonally
lets say) you had to wait until you could get to the service beaureau
to redo your LVT. More $$.

ANY kind of inkjet print is better than that.

Jim Hayes