Digital BW, The Print

Hi Ken; 

Sorry I dropped out there, I pikced up bug & have been horizontal 
for a couple days.


-- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "steve_bye" 
> Steve, is your hand-coated emulsion platinum or palladium or a 
combination?
> As you know these require a neg with a DR greater than a neg for 
silver
> paper.  If this film will work for pt/pd or Ziatype that is good 
news
> indeed.  Also, are you using dye or pigment inks?
> 

Actually, my hand coated emulsion is silver- Liquid Light to be 
exact. I discovered a few years ago that it actually is possible to 
get a decent print out of the stuff, given enough coats on the paper 
and a snappy negative. I have no idea how the DR compares to 
platinum, my guess is you still need a lot more contrast than I've 
worked up for this test. The inks I'm using are dyes-you could 
probably get better DR just by switching to pigments, those being 
more opaque. And at this point, I'm still not sure the neg I've made 
will work with LL, turns out what I had in the regrigerator is too 
old and has gotten coarse, gritty,& muddy. So I'm on hold until I 
get some more, and also some more Super Clear film so I can try some 
variations.