Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Katherine"
<october_air@h...> wrote:
> Hello, I'm new here.  My name is Katie.
> I chose to explore digital negatives as my independent study in
> undergrad school.  None of my professors have used the process, so as
> you might imagine, I'm going to have a million questions!
> 
> I'm following Dan Burkholder's book for printing with inkjet onto
> transparency film, contact printing onto silver gelatin (fiber based).
>  It sounded like the 1200 bitmap dither method worked best for this,
> so I formatted my image using that process.  But then I got confused
> when it came time to either colorize or make a color table (using
> orange ink instead of black).  
> 
> I used the color table method by switching back over to RGB mode. 
> Then I could not get my image to print because the computer would just
> freeze up.  I contact a friend who informed me that 1200 dpi is way
> too much for any printer to handle.  Then I noticed the page where
> Burkholder says that 480 is a good resolution for silver printing.  So
> I converted my image back to 480dpi, and had no trouble printing then.
> 
> Here's my results from the darkroom (although horrible scans):
> 
> Straight Print
> http://www.katiegregory.com/straightprintsm.jpg
> 
> With a #5 Filter
> http://www.katiegregory.com/5filtersm.jpg
> 
> They look awfully grainy to me.  Which leads me to ask; did I follow
> those steps right?  I get lost in that book easily.  Any other
> suggestions are greatly appreciated!