Digital BW, The Print

Ann,

Yes I am contact printing them. Yes they do work out. I have been doing both 
imagesetter negs and inkjet negs. The imagesetter negs can be a bit sharper 
but the control afforded by doing the negs on location with an inkjet gives 
them the edge for me. I found that tuning the process takes a few 
iterations. It's pretty easy and quick to make a new test neg when the 
equipment is right there. Sending out for imagesetter negs really prolongs 
the tuning process.

I don't know how to relate the quality in an email. I feel that the contact 
prints I am making are beautiful. They are sharp, smooth and have wonderful 
gradation and tonality with detail in the shadows and highlights. But each 
viewer will have to decide for themselves. Lets just say that if inkjet 
prints are acceptable to you then contact prints from inkjet negs should be 
at least acceptable. I prefer them to the "pigment on paper" prints that I 
make (although I love the pigment on paper prints for their own unique look 
and feel) because I love the look of silver gelatin prints. These contact 
prints are no less sharp or any less smooth than putting the pigment on 
paper directly (IMO.) They are of course much more work to make. There is 
definately time spent tuning the process and then when the process is tuned 
you have extra steps to go through for every print that you make. I happen 
to love the process as well as the product so I find it to be a rich 
experience.

Just for the record I am not trying to make a case that silver prints are 
better than inkjet prints. I produce, love and accept both.

Scott
www.scotthendershot.com

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "ann clancy" <jaclancy1937@...>
To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Monday, April 10, 2006 8:44 AM
Subject: Re: [Digital BW] RE: Anyone using digital negatives to make 
Platinum prints?


scott,

  these negatives for silver, do you contact print them?  The word is that 
enlarging digital  negatives doesn't work out .

  regards,
  ann

Scott Hendershot <nospam@...> wrote:
  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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