Digital BW, The Print

Stephen,

The Spectratones worked well using the now 
discontinued ilford transparency film (now 
replaced by an incompatible film) with 
cyanotype and gum bichromate.  Both of 
these processes really don't care about grain.

I imagine that the silver process may will 
show up grain and I should just send my 
friend a quick "grain test" instead of 
relinearizing to the oce transparency film I 
now have (which takes much more of the 
Spectratone inks then the pictorico trans 
film.)

For a silver process, I don't know which 
printer would be best since we haven't 
completed these steps due to my delays and 
other deadlines.  I'm sure that 1440 or higher 
would be my default setting for printing 
anything for a digital neg on any printer.

A lot of people prefer silver, and 
incorporating a digital step in the process 
makes them more unique.   Also, no media 
longevity issues.

Allen

A lot of people 

Message: 1
   Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2001 17:38:09 -0700
   From: "Stephen Kundell, MD" <
skundell@...>
Subject: digital negatives

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