Digital BW, The Print

I see. It is about $75.00 to get started. It does make sense to be
able to profile your machine for more precision. I see they are using
a Stouffer scale like we used to use for making halftones and lith
negs. He wrote me an email about this book when it was first released.
Sounds like a very good system. Thanks for all the info.

John

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Timothy
Atherton" <tim@K...> wrote:
>
> 
> > 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
>