Digital BW, The Print

I have not been making negatives for platinum but I have been doing inkjet 
negatives for silver and I have to say they are better than I had imagined. 
I started out several years ago with an epson 1200 hoping to make negatives 
that I could print with and was terribly disappointed. Things have improved 
considerably and the negs I am making with my 1280 are wonderful.

It is very much a tuned process. Since we are trying to make the best 
possible prints it only makes sense that you would want to tune your negs to 
the printing medium. I use a spectorphotometer to measure the densities in 
the final prints and this makes it fairly easy to tune the negs.

Scott
www.scotthendershot.com

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Keenan" <ausdlk@...>
To: <guruguhan@...>
Cc: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Sunday, April 09, 2006 1:39 PM
Subject: [Digital BW] RE: Anyone using digital negatives to make Platinum 
prints?


I have begun investigating making digital negs.

I am taking a palladium printing class in Europe this summer and want to 
take some enlarged negatives with me. I have no large format negatives and 
hope to enlarge some of my 35mm negs to take with me.

However, from what I have read so far it doesn't appear to be as simple as 
just "making negatives". It seems like it is all a coupled process -- that 
the negatives need to be "tuned" to the printing process.

At this point, I have no idea what this process is going to be.

Also, I have an Epson R2400 printer and have yet to find any info on how to 
use this printer to print on the Pictorico film material.

Obviously I have a lot to learn.

Dave.
-- 
David Keenan, ausdlk@... on 4/9/2006




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