Digital BW, The Print

There is a good article "Precision Digital Negatives: From Silver to 
Ink" in the December 2004/January2005 issue of Camera Arts 
magazine.  The article was written by Mark Nelson, the fellow who 
invented this approach.

Al 

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, R Murai 
<rmurai@e...> wrote:
> 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.ht
ml
> 
> 
> 
> > "Thanks for sharing your experience. What did you mean by "using 
the
> > printers full bore ink rendition?"
> > --------------------------------------------------
> > 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.
> > 
> > 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.
> > 
> > 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.
> > 
> > Don't hesitate to ask more questions...
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