Digital BW, The Print

> Where do I go to read about it? I am very curious.
>
> and...do you know anything about the transparency film in sizes like
> say, 20x24?
>

John,

the Burkholder system is in many ways setting a number of "canned" profiles
for different printers/final media, with some limited possibilities for

The Precision Digital Negative system has a bit of a learning curve (not to
steep for anyone used to profiling inks, making ICC curves, QTR curves etc
though) and basically allows you to profile your printer, transparency film
and end product media (Pd/Pt, Van Dyke, Azo, other silver or whatever) all
to each other and create custom curves.

Depending on how you are setting it up, you also tend to use the colour inks
rather than black for most digital neg making

I think the PDN system might have gone up in price a bit for v2  (I think I
got a free upgrade as an early purchaser)

Details here

http://www.precisiondigitalnegatives.com

Some discussion here,
http://www.apug.org/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=128

And there is a Yahoo group you can sign up to once you have "bought in"....

As for big sheets - I seem to recall someone trying some kind of 20x24, but
I can't remember what exactly they were doing it with