Enlarged Digital Negatives
2002-06-17 by donbga
Well I've finally worked up my nerve enough to attempt to make a digitally enlarged ink jet negative. I've been reading and re-reading Burkholder's second book on the topic and plan to use the Pictorico OHP Transparency Film and MIS-VM inks (cool tone) printed on an 1160. But of course I do have some questions. 1) What media type should I use in the Epson driver setting? 2) I plan on starting with the Piezo curve supplied by Dan on his web site unless someone can point me to a better solution. Since the Epson driver outputs in 8 bit instead of 16 bit (like the Cone software produces) is there any chance that enough ink density can be sprayed onto the OHPTM? 3) Does it matter which order the two adjustment curves are applied? I would think that since Dan's curve is not partitioned his curve would need to be used first in gray scale mode. After which RGB conversion would be made to enable the VMQC curve. Does that make sense? 4) I assume that the MIS quad tone inks will need to be sprayed. Should I use the Krylon clear spray? How long does the spray have to dry? I've heard from another user on another list that the Krylon product compresses the mid-tones in platinum palladium prints. Any comments about this would be helpfull and appreciated. 5) Has anyone sucessfully made digital inkjet negatives for contacting onto silver gelatin papers? I would assume the approach would be similar to the platinum conversion. It seems to me that initially using silver gelatin paper would provide a quicker (and less expensive) iterative process than an alternative process such as platinum printing, at least to work out the basic kinks common to both. Thanks, Don Bryant