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Re: [Digital BW] Please help?

2005-06-15 by Peter Gorwin

Hello Katie:  Pictorico film is very fragile stuff, and, unlike a 
traditional negative that has been protected by
a wetting agent, tends to be much more likely to attract fingerprints, 
scratches, and dust that are simply impossible
to clean off.  the only thing that I would recommend: try to be careful 
how you handle them, keep your printing area clean, but because
of their very fragile nature plan on having to print another negative 
after you have made a couple of prints.  Pictorico is still far less
expensive in terms of both time and money than having to produce an 
entirely new interneg according to traditional wet darkroom procedures.
(Although a sheet of Pictorico still is not cheap :~(). Some other 
members on this group have mentioned alternative material for printing 
negs.  (I can't recall them all.) I have used TDK plastic inkjet paper 
with some excellent results. It's less expensive than Pictorico.  
Regards, Peter

P.S.  don't be surprised if your inkjet negatives look "bullet proof " 
compared to traditional analog negs.  Silver, by its very nature,
  has an unsurpassed ability to block UV over the same equivalent tiny 
stochastic pattern of ink;  as a result, the ink must be spread
in a thicker fashion across the entire curve to approach the equivalent 
results of a thinner silver emulsion.)
>
> Also, any advice on how to keep the negatives as clean as possible?
>
> ~Katie~
>

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