Digital BW, The Print

My 13yo son and I have done single color
gum-bichromate contact printing from simple digital
negs made on an inexpensive Canon printer onto cheap
8.5 x 11 inch 3M brand transparency film we got at
Office Max.  Not elegant - but it worked.  We just 
did a simple color to grey-scale conversion and
inversion using PS Elements starting with a digital
jpeg original.  Again, not the most subtle gradation
of  tones - but it did WORK and is a good way to get
started.  We like to watercolor onto the prints after
they're dry - as, of course, these are just
"photographic watercolors" anyway.  BTW, we liked
Arches hot press for the paper substrate.

--- pepejaffa <pepejaffa@...> wrote:

> 
> too poor for this group....:-/....:(....:((
> 
> 
> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com,
> "pepejaffa" <pepejaffa@y...> wrote:
> >
> > I'm hoping to make some gum prints from inkjet
> negs made using a 
> > rather crappy Lexmark z33 and inkjet transparency
> sheets from k-mart 
> > (i.e. low budget).
> > 
> > Would welcome any suggestions, advice...
> > 
> > Pepe
> >
> 
> 
> 
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