Digital BW, The Print

Scott,

Is there any way that we can see some examples?

Sounds exciting.


Rick Murai

www.richardmurai.com
http://www.hawaii.edu/mjournal/text/issues/descriptions/cambodia04.html



> "Thanks for sharing your experience. What did you mean by "using the
> printers full bore ink rendition?"
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> Mark Nelson's Precision Digital Negative system has you pick a
> "color" for printing your negatives that is determined in the
> calibration process. It is usually a pure R, G, or B tone plus a
> slight mix in of one of the other two. This makes for a brightly
> colored negative and is used because of the varying UV transmision
> characteristics of the colored inks, since most of his work is
> platinum which uses a UV light source.
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> In my case, I am using silver variable contrast paper. I found that
> if I used one of his color mixes, I could not get enough density of
> ink on the negative substrate to get a wide range of tones without
> cranking the contrast filter setting way up to the top and the image
> looked terrible.
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> So, I abandoned (at his suggestion) the color picking step and just
> let the printer driver use all of its inks to make a full Black and
> white negative image on the negative substrate. This way there was a
> lot more ink on the substrate and it worked beautifully.
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