Digital BW, The Print

And Dan Burkholder was printing Ultrachromes on Platinum prints several years ago!
http://www.danburkholder.com/Pages/main_pages/gallery_main_page.htm

John Nollendorfs

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "john dean" <deanwork2003@...> 
wrote:
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> 
> There you go Mark! I've thought about doing this about 2 years ago but
> I FORGOT all about doing it. Yes, I will try that. I assume you are
> already doing it ;-). 
> 
> I had a teacher many years ago Todd Walker, who specialized in very
> high end oil based photo silk screen work, with each element built up
> on top of and and overlapping the next. He would normally use about 20
> printings for one image (20 screens)! Some of them could go up to 50
> or more. They were the most opulant use of color photography that I
> had ever seen. Most of this transparency effect was the result of
> these subtle, often thin layers of color acting as opacity layers with
> "endless possibilities". I know exactly what you are talking about and
> it is time I tried it. Later Todd did the same technique by running
> rag paper sheets over and over again through an offset press, each
> layer was a different inked plate.
> 
> If he were alive today I know he would be doing this on the Epson
> printers, no doubt about it. It is time I tried some of that, not just
> for creating warm backgrounds but also for color work. It aint the
> same as making opacity masks in Photoshop. That is a totally different
> ballgame.
> 
> Thanks for reminding me. Too many things on my mind.
> 
> John
> 
> 
> 
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> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Mark Savoia
> <mark@> wrote:
> >
> > John,
> > Have you tried to print a solid color (on color printer with color  
> > inks) on your favorite paper in your favorite "warmth" and then  
> > reprint over it in black and white? Endless possibilities.
> > Mark
> > 
> > On May 24, 2006, at 4:20 PM, john dean wrote:
> > 
> > >
> > >
> > > I think this K7 inkset will work beautifully on any Epson out there.
> > > All the Hahnemuhle papers look great, neutral with rich blacks and
> > > subtle highlight info just out of QTR.
> > >
> > > The Premier Art Hotpress prints very cool and totally different than
> > > any of the others, if you like a fairly strong cool neutral.
> > >
> > > Which reminds me,.... when is someone going to make a really warm high
> > > quality rag paper? Cone says the Innova Cold Press prints warm neutral
> > > with the K7 set, but I can't imagine it being that warm but I haven't
> > > tried it yet. Oh, I miss Concorde Rag, which had the look but doesn't
> > > hold up to daylight. I used to make some really cool warm and sepia
> > > prints on that stuff.
> > >
> > > john
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