Digital BW, The Print

You might want to check out Dan Burkholders web site 
http://www.danburkholder.com/ he has a book "Making Digital 
Negatives for Contact Prints.  He does mostly platinum prints, but 
there is no reason why you wouldn't be able to creat negs that would 
work for silver prints as well.  You would definately want to make 
your negs big enough for contact printing, for reasons I belive that 
are obvious.  I haven't made any digital negs yet but I plan to in 
the future.

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Chris Hargens" 
<chargens@s...> wrote:
> I'm thinking again about trying to print my BW stuff using digital 
> negatives rather than paper. I figure that this way -- using a 
2200 
> with color ultrachromes loaded --I can get the look I want (air-
dried 
> fiber) and avoid most of the problems (changing color to BW inks, 
> clogs, occasional posterization and flatness in midtones) that 
come 
> with dedicated BW inksets. As I mentioned in a previous post, I 
like 
> the BO look on matte paper, but I find that with certain kinds of 
> photos the dots become distracting. Anyway, I'd be interested in 
> hearing about how difficult the whole digital negative procedure 
is --
> Although I've done a fair amount of darkroom work, I'm not quite 
sure 
> about how much trial and error is involved in getting from an 
> acceptable scanned negative & PS file, to a digital negative, and 
> then to the final print. Any advice or shared experience would be 
> appreciated. 
> 
> Chris Hargens