Digital BW, The Print

Thanks, all, for your comments and suggestions. I didn't have a proper blade to even try this with my bandsaw and didn't have a good way to do it on the table saw even though I've got a 60-tooth carbide blade that probably would have done the job.

So I called a contractor friend today who lives nearby to use one of his chop saws. No luck. All three were miles from here on job sites. But, he offered to cut it on his radial arm saw. He didn't have a large enough blade to do it in one pass. He had to roll the paper and take three passes, but we used a stop block clamped to the table and got a very smooth and clean cut. No problems at all and it took just a few minutes. Now I'm ready to print.

Many ways to skin a cat, I guess!

Tom
Indianapolis


--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Mark MacKenzie" <mjmackenzie22@...> wrote:
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> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "steve_wadlington" <steve_wadlington@> wrote:
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> > --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Thomas Keesling" <restorephoto@> wrote:
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> > > I've got a roll of PhotoRag I want to cut. I seem to recall someone mentioning how they did this quite a while ago. Is a bandsaw the best tool to use? Or a table saw? I can use either, but just wondered what experiences others have had when doing this.
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> > > Thanks.....
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> For the past year I have been cutting down some of my larger rolls of paper for use in my Epson 4000.  I use a good chop saw with a sliding head and the best multi-tooth clean cutting blade I can find.  It should be a carbide blade and one you might use for fine molding cutting use, etc.
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> I use painter's tape to bind all the way around the roll where the cut will be and position it so that the cut is in the middle of the tape.
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> You will lose a bit of the leading edge of the paper due to tape residues when you are finished but I find the cut roll end to be glass smooth.  If the paper is tightly rolled to begin with and you keep it that way, all paper fines can easily be brushed away from the ends.
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> It works very well.
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> Regards
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> Mark MacKenzie
> Alcalde, NM
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