Digital BW, The Print

In his message to the members of the Digital Silver list, announcing this
new list, Martin Wesley said, near the end, "I would love to hear from
people who are outputting to film recorders and how that is working for
them. People printing B&W to the high-end printers such as Iris, Durst, etc.
Using digital to produce contact negatives for traditional B&W print
emulsions."
I agree and that is why I joined this list the instant I heard of it.
Unfortunately, so far I have seen no discussion at all of anything in these
areas. At this point the only the areas covered seem to be those already
covered very well by the Digital Silver and the Epson Inkjet lists. I use an
Epson 1280, myself, and am considering Jon Cone's system so the inkjet
printer postings are of interest to me but I'm hoping that this list will
cover something beyond inkjet.

 My particular interest right now is in finding ways to go from film
negatives, through computer processing, to final, archivally processed
silver prints. There are several ways to accomplish this and I would like to
explore the possibilities Others have done this, I'm sure, and I would very
much like to hear of their experiences, good and bad. I hope I'm not the
only one interested in such a discussion.


Hopingly,


Olaf Ringdahl