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RE: [Digital BW] Re: Anyone using digital negatives to make Platinum prints?

2006-04-10 by Eric Neilsen Photo 2

The new K3 work fine. There are other suppliers as well for all your supply
for PT/PD printing. 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
> [mailto:DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf
> Of mark_roth_505
> Sent: Saturday, April 08, 2006 8:34 PM
> To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [Digital BW] Re: Anyone using digital negatives to
> make Platinum prints?
> 
> You should give Bostick & Sullivan, a call in Santa Fe, NM at
> 505-474-
> 0890. They are one of the best suppliers of Pt/Pd and other
> alt.
> supplies out there. You want to ask for Kevin Sullivan. He will
> talk
> to you as long as you want, and answer all your questions. I am
> fortunate enough to live just up the road from their office
> here in
> Santa Fe, and he really helped me tremendously in the
> beginning, but
> I understand Kevin is helpful to all who call him. The one
> thing you
> need to get is a dedicated printer for dye inks, because
> pigment inks
> do not stick to the Pictorico clear film for making digital
> negatives. I would get an Epson R220 for this purpose.  It
> takes a
> lot of trial/error and testing, and keeping notes, but once you
> get a
> formula figured out for your own ink/printer/lighting exposure
> system, you'll be making really nice Pt/Pd prints on a
> consistent
> basis, without a darkroom. Good luck.
> 
> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, G Guhan
> Gunaratnam <guruguhan@...> wrote:
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > I know this is a little OT, but not completely, so I was
> hoping
> someone
> > might want to chime in if they have experience making digital
> negs
> with an
> > inkjet/imagesetter and then making platinum prints with them.
> >
> > Please let me know on/off the board.  I'm reading Dan's book
> now,
> but I'm a
> > youngun and don't have a traditional darkroom.  That could
> change
> though
> > with prices as low as they are.
> >
> > Any insights, annoyances, wishes, etc with the process are
> appreciated.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Guhan
> >
> 
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