Digital BW, The Print

Alan,
You mentioned that you were producing a digital negative for a friend. What is the current status using Lincoln quads for this purpose? Do you print on pictoro transparent media? Dye based inks would sound preferential in this regard. Do you see a benefit from hex vs quad tones for this specific purpose? Which printers are prefered, 3000 with larger dot or 1280/1200/7000 with very small or variable dots?. For printing on silver, in which every defect shows, how close is the quality to what one gets with a diffusion dither image setter output (3600 dpi or so)? At the risk of being booted off this list, I still lust for the look and feel of silver prints! Unfortunately, I lost my virginity to photoshop.
Stephen Kundell 


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