Yahoo Groups archive

Digital BW, The Print

Index last updated: 2026-04-28 22:56 UTC

Thread

Anyone using digital negatives to make Platinum prints?

Anyone using digital negatives to make Platinum prints?

2006-04-08 by G Guhan Gunaratnam

Hello,

I know this is a little OT, but not completely, so I was hoping someone
might want to chime in if they have experience making digital negs with an
inkjet/imagesetter and then making platinum prints with them.

Please let me know on/off the board.  I'm reading Dan's book now, but I'm a
youngun and don't have a traditional darkroom.  That could change though
with prices as low as they are.

Any insights, annoyances, wishes, etc with the process are appreciated.

Thanks,
Guhan

Re: Anyone using digital negatives to make Platinum prints?

2006-04-09 by mark_roth_505

You should give Bostick & Sullivan, a call in Santa Fe, NM at 505-474-
0890. They are one of the best suppliers of Pt/Pd and other alt. 
supplies out there. You want to ask for Kevin Sullivan. He will talk 
to you as long as you want, and answer all your questions. I am 
fortunate enough to live just up the road from their office here in 
Santa Fe, and he really helped me tremendously in the beginning, but 
I understand Kevin is helpful to all who call him. The one thing you 
need to get is a dedicated printer for dye inks, because pigment inks 
do not stick to the Pictorico clear film for making digital 
negatives. I would get an Epson R220 for this purpose.  It takes a 
lot of trial/error and testing, and keeping notes, but once you get a 
formula figured out for your own ink/printer/lighting exposure 
system, you'll be making really nice Pt/Pd prints on a consistent 
basis, without a darkroom. Good luck.

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, G Guhan 
Gunaratnam <guruguhan@...> wrote:
>
> Hello,
> 
> I know this is a little OT, but not completely, so I was hoping 
someone
> might want to chime in if they have experience making digital negs 
with an
> inkjet/imagesetter and then making platinum prints with them.
> 
> Please let me know on/off the board.  I'm reading Dan's book now, 
but I'm a
> youngun and don't have a traditional darkroom.  That could change 
though
> with prices as low as they are.
> 
> Any insights, annoyances, wishes, etc with the process are 
appreciated.
Show quoted textHide quoted text
> 
> Thanks,
> Guhan
>

RE: Anyone using digital negatives to make Platinum prints?

2006-04-09 by David Keenan

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

Re: [Digital BW] RE: Anyone using digital negatives to make Platinum prints?

2006-04-09 by ann clancy

check out dan burkholder website, he has lots of tips on making digital negatives, including profiles for a wide variety of printers, etc.
   
  regards,
  ann

David Keenan <ausdlk@...> wrote:
  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




Please visit the Group Homepage to check the Files, and other resources as they are often being updated.

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint

If you wish to receive no emails or just a daily digest, or you wish to unsubscribe, please edit your Membership preferences by visiting this same page.

Please follow these basic guidelines:
- As threads develop, trim off excess portions of earlier messages to keep them short.
- Good manners are required at all time. No personal attacks or flames. Hostile, aggressive or argumentative users may be removed from the membership without notice.
- Keep your posts and threads related to the group topic of digital B&W printing. Users who persistently make off-topic posts may be removed from the membership.
- By posting on this forum you agree to abide by the group rules and guidelines, and to abide by the actions and decisions of the group Owner and Moderators. See “Group Topic, Rules and Guidelines” in the Files section:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint/files/

BY PARTICIPATING IN AND/OR POSTING MESSAGES TO THE DIGITAL BW, THE PRINT YAHOO! GROUP YOU EXPRESSLY UNDERSTAND AND AGREE THAT THE “OWNER” AND “MODERATORS” OF DIGITAL BW, THE PRINT YAHOO GROUP SHALL NOT BE LIABLE TO YOU FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL OR EXEMPLARY DAMAGES, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO, DAMAGES FOR LOSS OF PROFITS, GOODWILL, USE, DATA OR OTHER INTANGIBLE LOSSES (EVEN IF THE  “OWNER” AND “MODERATORS” OF DIGITAL BW, THE PRINT YAHOO GROUP HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES), RESULTING FROM: (i) THE USE OR THE INABILITY TO USE THE DIGITAL BW, THE PRINT YAHOO GROUP; (ii) UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS TO OR ALTERATION OF YOUR TRANSMISSIONS OR DATA; (iii) STATEMENTS OR CONDUCT OF ANY THIRD PARTY ON THE DIGITAL BW, THE PRINT YAHOO GROUP; OR (iv) ANY OTHER MATTER RELATING TO THE DIGITAL BW, THE PRINT YAHOO GROUP.



    
---------------------------------
  YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS 

    
    Visit your group "DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint" on the web.
    
    To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:
 DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com
    
    Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. 

    
---------------------------------
  



		
---------------------------------
Love cheap thrills? Enjoy PC-to-Phone  calls to 30+ countries for just 2¢/min with Yahoo! Messenger with Voice.

[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

Re: [Digital BW] RE: Anyone using digital negatives to make Platinum prints?

2006-04-10 by Scott Hendershot

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
Show quoted textHide quoted text
----- 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




Please visit the Group Homepage to check the Files, and other resources as 
they are often being updated.

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint

If you wish to receive no emails or just a daily digest, or you wish to 
unsubscribe, please edit your Membership preferences by visiting this same 
page.

Please follow these basic guidelines:
- As threads develop, trim off excess portions of earlier messages to keep 
them short.
- Good manners are required at all time. No personal attacks or flames. 
Hostile, aggressive or argumentative users may be removed from the 
membership without notice.
- Keep your posts and threads related to the group topic of digital B&W 
printing. Users who persistently make off-topic posts may be removed from 
the membership.
- By posting on this forum you agree to abide by the group rules and 
guidelines, and to abide by the actions and decisions of the group Owner and 
Moderators. See "Group Topic, Rules and Guidelines" in the Files section:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint/files/

BY PARTICIPATING IN AND/OR POSTING MESSAGES TO THE DIGITAL BW, THE PRINT 
YAHOO! GROUP YOU EXPRESSLY UNDERSTAND AND AGREE THAT THE "OWNER" AND 
"MODERATORS" OF DIGITAL BW, THE PRINT YAHOO GROUP SHALL NOT BE LIABLE TO YOU 
FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL OR EXEMPLARY 
DAMAGES, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO, DAMAGES FOR LOSS OF PROFITS, 
GOODWILL, USE, DATA OR OTHER INTANGIBLE LOSSES (EVEN IF THE  "OWNER" AND 
"MODERATORS" OF DIGITAL BW, THE PRINT YAHOO GROUP HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF THE 
POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES), RESULTING FROM: (i) THE USE OR THE INABILITY 
TO USE THE DIGITAL BW, THE PRINT YAHOO GROUP; (ii) UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS TO OR 
ALTERATION OF YOUR TRANSMISSIONS OR DATA; (iii) STATEMENTS OR CONDUCT OF ANY 
THIRD PARTY ON THE DIGITAL BW, THE PRINT YAHOO GROUP; OR (iv) ANY OTHER 
MATTER RELATING TO THE DIGITAL BW, THE PRINT YAHOO GROUP.

Yahoo! Groups Links

RE: [Digital BW] RE: Anyone using digital negatives to make Platinum prints?

2006-04-10 by Eric Neilsen

David, You really need to make negatives that fit your process; not just
platinum/palladium but your platinum/palladium.  There are many variables
that can come into play.  Mark Nelson sells an ebook on it. Dan Burkholder
has wonderful methods. I have made them using an Epson 7000 and Cones' Sepia
ink set on UCF from Photo Warehouse. I am now running new curves for the
4800 and K3 inks on Pictorico. If you don't know platinum/palladium
printing, I would advise you to get your files prepared to print at 360 dpi
grayscale images as you would like them to look and take them with you. I am
sure that you'll be able to get output there and your files will be already
set with the exception of invert and curves.  

You can do colorized negs, B&W negs, or I am using the advanced B&W and
making a PYRO looking neg. 

Your negs that you use in the platinum class may or may not work when you
get home. The variables may like light source, chemicals, developer, etc
might mean that you'll need to make new negs. However, you should learn
enough to know how when you get there. 

Eric  

Eric Neilsen Photography
4101 Commerce Street
Suite 9
Dallas, TX 75226
http://e.neilsen.home.att.net
http://ericneilsenphotography.com
Show quoted textHide quoted text
> -----Original Message-----
> From: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
> [mailto:DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of David
> Keenan
> Sent: Sunday, April 09, 2006 12:39 PM
> To: guruguhan@...
> Cc: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
> 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
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Please visit the Group Homepage to check the Files, and other resources as
> they are often being updated.
> 
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint
> 
> If you wish to receive no emails or just a daily digest, or you wish to
> unsubscribe, please edit your Membership preferences by visiting this same
> page.
> 
> Please follow these basic guidelines:
> - As threads develop, trim off excess portions of earlier messages to keep
> them short.
> - Good manners are required at all time. No personal attacks or flames.
> Hostile, aggressive or argumentative users may be removed from the
> membership without notice.
> - Keep your posts and threads related to the group topic of digital B&W
> printing. Users who persistently make off-topic posts may be removed from
> the membership.
> - By posting on this forum you agree to abide by the group rules and
> guidelines, and to abide by the actions and decisions of the group Owner
> and Moderators. See "Group Topic, Rules and Guidelines" in the Files
> section:
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint/files/
> 
> BY PARTICIPATING IN AND/OR POSTING MESSAGES TO THE DIGITAL BW, THE PRINT
> YAHOO! GROUP YOU EXPRESSLY UNDERSTAND AND AGREE THAT THE "OWNER" AND
> "MODERATORS" OF DIGITAL BW, THE PRINT YAHOO GROUP SHALL NOT BE LIABLE TO
> YOU FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL OR
> EXEMPLARY DAMAGES, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO, DAMAGES FOR LOSS OF
> PROFITS, GOODWILL, USE, DATA OR OTHER INTANGIBLE LOSSES (EVEN IF THE
> "OWNER" AND "MODERATORS" OF DIGITAL BW, THE PRINT YAHOO GROUP HAVE BEEN
> ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES), RESULTING FROM: (i) THE USE
> OR THE INABILITY TO USE THE DIGITAL BW, THE PRINT YAHOO GROUP; (ii)
> UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS TO OR ALTERATION OF YOUR TRANSMISSIONS OR DATA; (iii)
> STATEMENTS OR CONDUCT OF ANY THIRD PARTY ON THE DIGITAL BW, THE PRINT
> YAHOO GROUP; OR (iv) ANY OTHER MATTER RELATING TO THE DIGITAL BW, THE
> PRINT YAHOO GROUP.
> 
> Yahoo! Groups Links
> 
> 
> 
> 
>

Re: [Digital BW] RE: Anyone using digital negatives to make Platinum prints?

2006-04-10 by john dean

I have had really first class results by making negs through Photoshop
with the Pictorico film using Burkholders curves. www.danburkholder.com.

However that has been about 3 years ago and there is another
alternative method that some swear by that is described in a book by
Mark Nelson who contacted me about this a coupel of years ago. I have
yet to try it. Too many irons in the fire. Here is the link-
http://www.precisiondigitalnegatives.com/

You should be able to fine tune excellent negatives with either of
these methods. Be sure to use good paper. For me that was the most
important variable, using the paper designed expecially for
plat/palladium printing. 

John

Re: [Digital BW] RE: Anyone using digital negatives to make Platinum prints?

2006-04-10 by ann clancy

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
Show quoted textHide quoted text
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Keenan" <ausdlk@...t>
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




Please visit the Group Homepage to check the Files, and other resources as 
they are often being updated.

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint

If you wish to receive no emails or just a daily digest, or you wish to 
unsubscribe, please edit your Membership preferences by visiting this same 
page.

Please follow these basic guidelines:
- As threads develop, trim off excess portions of earlier messages to keep 
them short.
- Good manners are required at all time. No personal attacks or flames. 
Hostile, aggressive or argumentative users may be removed from the 
membership without notice.
- Keep your posts and threads related to the group topic of digital B&W 
printing. Users who persistently make off-topic posts may be removed from 
the membership.
- By posting on this forum you agree to abide by the group rules and 
guidelines, and to abide by the actions and decisions of the group Owner and 
Moderators. See "Group Topic, Rules and Guidelines" in the Files section:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint/files/

BY PARTICIPATING IN AND/OR POSTING MESSAGES TO THE DIGITAL BW, THE PRINT 
YAHOO! GROUP YOU EXPRESSLY UNDERSTAND AND AGREE THAT THE "OWNER" AND 
"MODERATORS" OF DIGITAL BW, THE PRINT YAHOO GROUP SHALL NOT BE LIABLE TO YOU 
FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL OR EXEMPLARY 
DAMAGES, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO, DAMAGES FOR LOSS OF PROFITS, 
GOODWILL, USE, DATA OR OTHER INTANGIBLE LOSSES (EVEN IF THE  "OWNER" AND 
"MODERATORS" OF DIGITAL BW, THE PRINT YAHOO GROUP HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF THE 
POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES), RESULTING FROM: (i) THE USE OR THE INABILITY 
TO USE THE DIGITAL BW, THE PRINT YAHOO GROUP; (ii) UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS TO OR 
ALTERATION OF YOUR TRANSMISSIONS OR DATA; (iii) STATEMENTS OR CONDUCT OF ANY 
THIRD PARTY ON THE DIGITAL BW, THE PRINT YAHOO GROUP; OR (iv) ANY OTHER 
MATTER RELATING TO THE DIGITAL BW, THE PRINT YAHOO GROUP.

Yahoo! Groups Links










Please visit the Group Homepage to check the Files, and other resources as they are often being updated.

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint

If you wish to receive no emails or just a daily digest, or you wish to unsubscribe, please edit your Membership preferences by visiting this same page.

Please follow these basic guidelines:
- As threads develop, trim off excess portions of earlier messages to keep them short.
- Good manners are required at all time. No personal attacks or flames. Hostile, aggressive or argumentative users may be removed from the membership without notice.
- Keep your posts and threads related to the group topic of digital B&W printing. Users who persistently make off-topic posts may be removed from the membership.
- By posting on this forum you agree to abide by the group rules and guidelines, and to abide by the actions and decisions of the group Owner and Moderators. See “Group Topic, Rules and Guidelines” in the Files section:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint/files/

BY PARTICIPATING IN AND/OR POSTING MESSAGES TO THE DIGITAL BW, THE PRINT YAHOO! GROUP YOU EXPRESSLY UNDERSTAND AND AGREE THAT THE “OWNER” AND “MODERATORS” OF DIGITAL BW, THE PRINT YAHOO GROUP SHALL NOT BE LIABLE TO YOU FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL OR EXEMPLARY DAMAGES, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO, DAMAGES FOR LOSS OF PROFITS, GOODWILL, USE, DATA OR OTHER INTANGIBLE LOSSES (EVEN IF THE  “OWNER” AND “MODERATORS” OF DIGITAL BW, THE PRINT YAHOO GROUP HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES), RESULTING FROM: (i) THE USE OR THE INABILITY TO USE THE DIGITAL BW, THE PRINT YAHOO GROUP; (ii) UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS TO OR ALTERATION OF YOUR TRANSMISSIONS OR DATA; (iii) STATEMENTS OR CONDUCT OF ANY THIRD PARTY ON THE DIGITAL BW, THE PRINT YAHOO GROUP; OR (iv) ANY OTHER MATTER RELATING TO THE DIGITAL BW, THE PRINT YAHOO GROUP.




  SPONSORED LINKS 
        Digital wedding photography   Learn digital photography   Digital photography college     Digital photography   Digital photography web site   Digital photography course 
    
---------------------------------
  YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS 

    
    Visit your group "DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint" on the web.
    
    To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:
 DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com
    
    Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. 

    
---------------------------------
  



		
---------------------------------
How low will we go? Check out Yahoo! Messenger’s low  PC-to-Phone call rates.

[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

RE: [Digital BW] Re: Anyone using digital negatives to make Platinum prints?

2006-04-10 by Eric Neilsen Photo 2

The new K3 work fine. There are other suppliers as well for all your supply
for PT/PD printing. 
Show quoted textHide quoted text
> -----Original Message-----
> From: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
> [mailto:DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf
> Of mark_roth_505
> Sent: Saturday, April 08, 2006 8:34 PM
> To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [Digital BW] Re: Anyone using digital negatives to
> make Platinum prints?
> 
> You should give Bostick & Sullivan, a call in Santa Fe, NM at
> 505-474-
> 0890. They are one of the best suppliers of Pt/Pd and other
> alt.
> supplies out there. You want to ask for Kevin Sullivan. He will
> talk
> to you as long as you want, and answer all your questions. I am
> fortunate enough to live just up the road from their office
> here in
> Santa Fe, and he really helped me tremendously in the
> beginning, but
> I understand Kevin is helpful to all who call him. The one
> thing you
> need to get is a dedicated printer for dye inks, because
> pigment inks
> do not stick to the Pictorico clear film for making digital
> negatives. I would get an Epson R220 for this purpose.  It
> takes a
> lot of trial/error and testing, and keeping notes, but once you
> get a
> formula figured out for your own ink/printer/lighting exposure
> system, you'll be making really nice Pt/Pd prints on a
> consistent
> basis, without a darkroom. Good luck.
> 
> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, G Guhan
> Gunaratnam <guruguhan@...> wrote:
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > I know this is a little OT, but not completely, so I was
> hoping
> someone
> > might want to chime in if they have experience making digital
> negs
> with an
> > inkjet/imagesetter and then making platinum prints with them.
> >
> > Please let me know on/off the board.  I'm reading Dan's book
> now,
> but I'm a
> > youngun and don't have a traditional darkroom.  That could
> change
> though
> > with prices as low as they are.
> >
> > Any insights, annoyances, wishes, etc with the process are
> appreciated.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Guhan
> >
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Please visit the Group Homepage to check the Files, and other
> resources as they are often being updated.
> 
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint
> 
> If you wish to receive no emails or just a daily digest, or you
> wish to unsubscribe, please edit your Membership preferences by
> visiting this same page.
> 
> Please follow these basic guidelines:
> - As threads develop, trim off excess portions of earlier
> messages to keep them short.
> - Good manners are required at all time. No personal attacks or
> flames. Hostile, aggressive or argumentative users may be
> removed from the membership without notice.
> - Keep your posts and threads related to the group topic of
> digital B&W printing. Users who persistently make off-topic
> posts may be removed from the membership.
> - By posting on this forum you agree to abide by the group
> rules and guidelines, and to abide by the actions and decisions
> of the group Owner and Moderators. See "Group Topic, Rules and
> Guidelines" in the Files section:
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint/file
> s/
> 
> BY PARTICIPATING IN AND/OR POSTING MESSAGES TO THE DIGITAL BW,
> THE PRINT YAHOO! GROUP YOU EXPRESSLY UNDERSTAND AND AGREE THAT
> THE "OWNER" AND "MODERATORS" OF DIGITAL BW, THE PRINT YAHOO
> GROUP SHALL NOT BE LIABLE TO YOU FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT,
> INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL OR EXEMPLARY DAMAGES,
> INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO, DAMAGES FOR LOSS OF PROFITS,
> GOODWILL, USE, DATA OR OTHER INTANGIBLE LOSSES (EVEN IF THE
> "OWNER" AND "MODERATORS" OF DIGITAL BW, THE PRINT YAHOO GROUP
> HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES),
> RESULTING FROM: (i) THE USE OR THE INABILITY TO USE THE DIGITAL
> BW, THE PRINT YAHOO GROUP; (ii) UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS TO OR
> ALTERATION OF YOUR TRANSMISSIONS OR DATA; (iii) STATEMENTS OR
> CONDUCT OF ANY THIRD PARTY ON THE DIGITAL BW, THE PRINT YAHOO
> GROUP; OR (iv) ANY OTHER MATTER RELATING TO THE DIGITAL BW, THE
> PRINT YAHOO GROUP.
> 
> Yahoo! Groups Links
> 
> 
> 
> 
>

RE: [Digital BW] RE: Anyone using digital negatives to make Platinum prints?

2006-04-10 by Eric Neilsen

For me that was the most
> important variable, using the paper designed expecially for
> plat/palladium printing.

There are many many papers that work, and you don't need to get one
specifically made for platinum printing. And quite honestly the biggest
problem many printers have with platinum/palladium is failure to understand
the importance of humidity; both during coating and during exposure that
effects how the coating is absorbed into the paper as well as speed and
contrast. 

With all the changes in inks and printers over the last few years, digital
negatives to me, provide a new opportunity to play with PS than many other
in the digital landscape. 

Eric 


Eric Neilsen Photography
4101 Commerce Street
Suite 9
Dallas, TX 75226
http://e.neilsen.home.att.net
http://ericneilsenphotography.com
Show quoted textHide quoted text
> -----Original Message-----
> From: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
> [mailto:DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of john
> dean
> Sent: Sunday, April 09, 2006 10:21 PM
> To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: [Digital BW] RE: Anyone using digital negatives to make
> Platinum prints?
> 
> I have had really first class results by making negs through Photoshop
> with the Pictorico film using Burkholders curves. www.danburkholder.com.
> 
> However that has been about 3 years ago and there is another
> alternative method that some swear by that is described in a book by
> Mark Nelson who contacted me about this a coupel of years ago. I have
> yet to try it. Too many irons in the fire. Here is the link-
> http://www.precisiondigitalnegatives.com/
> 
> You should be able to fine tune excellent negatives with either of
> these methods. Be sure to use good paper. For me that was the most
> important variable, using the paper designed expecially for
> plat/palladium printing.
> 
> John
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Please visit the Group Homepage to check the Files, and other resources as
> they are often being updated.
> 
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint
> 
> If you wish to receive no emails or just a daily digest, or you wish to
> unsubscribe, please edit your Membership preferences by visiting this same
> page.
> 
> Please follow these basic guidelines:
> - As threads develop, trim off excess portions of earlier messages to keep
> them short.
> - Good manners are required at all time. No personal attacks or flames.
> Hostile, aggressive or argumentative users may be removed from the
> membership without notice.
> - Keep your posts and threads related to the group topic of digital B&W
> printing. Users who persistently make off-topic posts may be removed from
> the membership.
> - By posting on this forum you agree to abide by the group rules and
> guidelines, and to abide by the actions and decisions of the group Owner
> and Moderators. See "Group Topic, Rules and Guidelines" in the Files
> section:
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint/files/
> 
> BY PARTICIPATING IN AND/OR POSTING MESSAGES TO THE DIGITAL BW, THE PRINT
> YAHOO! GROUP YOU EXPRESSLY UNDERSTAND AND AGREE THAT THE "OWNER" AND
> "MODERATORS" OF DIGITAL BW, THE PRINT YAHOO GROUP SHALL NOT BE LIABLE TO
> YOU FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL OR
> EXEMPLARY DAMAGES, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO, DAMAGES FOR LOSS OF
> PROFITS, GOODWILL, USE, DATA OR OTHER INTANGIBLE LOSSES (EVEN IF THE
> "OWNER" AND "MODERATORS" OF DIGITAL BW, THE PRINT YAHOO GROUP HAVE BEEN
> ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES), RESULTING FROM: (i) THE USE
> OR THE INABILITY TO USE THE DIGITAL BW, THE PRINT YAHOO GROUP; (ii)
> UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS TO OR ALTERATION OF YOUR TRANSMISSIONS OR DATA; (iii)
> STATEMENTS OR CONDUCT OF ANY THIRD PARTY ON THE DIGITAL BW, THE PRINT
> YAHOO GROUP; OR (iv) ANY OTHER MATTER RELATING TO THE DIGITAL BW, THE
> PRINT YAHOO GROUP.
> 
> Yahoo! Groups Links
> 
> 
> 
> 
>

Re: [Digital BW] RE: Anyone using digital negatives to make Platinum prints?

2006-04-10 by Scott Hendershot

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
Show quoted textHide quoted text
----- 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




Please visit the Group Homepage to check the Files, and other resources as
they are often being updated.

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint

If you wish to receive no emails or just a daily digest, or you wish to
unsubscribe, please edit your Membership preferences by visiting this same
page.

Please follow these basic guidelines:
- As threads develop, trim off excess portions of earlier messages to keep
them short.
- Good manners are required at all time. No personal attacks or flames.
Hostile, aggressive or argumentative users may be removed from the
membership without notice.
- Keep your posts and threads related to the group topic of digital B&W
printing. Users who persistently make off-topic posts may be removed from
the membership.
- By posting on this forum you agree to abide by the group rules and
guidelines, and to abide by the actions and decisions of the group Owner and
Moderators. See "Group Topic, Rules and Guidelines" in the Files section:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint/files/

BY PARTICIPATING IN AND/OR POSTING MESSAGES TO THE DIGITAL BW, THE PRINT
YAHOO! GROUP YOU EXPRESSLY UNDERSTAND AND AGREE THAT THE "OWNER" AND
"MODERATORS" OF DIGITAL BW, THE PRINT YAHOO GROUP SHALL NOT BE LIABLE TO YOU
FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL OR EXEMPLARY
DAMAGES, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO, DAMAGES FOR LOSS OF PROFITS,
GOODWILL, USE, DATA OR OTHER INTANGIBLE LOSSES (EVEN IF THE  "OWNER" AND
"MODERATORS" OF DIGITAL BW, THE PRINT YAHOO GROUP HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF THE
POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES), RESULTING FROM: (i) THE USE OR THE INABILITY
TO USE THE DIGITAL BW, THE PRINT YAHOO GROUP; (ii) UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS TO OR
ALTERATION OF YOUR TRANSMISSIONS OR DATA; (iii) STATEMENTS OR CONDUCT OF ANY
THIRD PARTY ON THE DIGITAL BW, THE PRINT YAHOO GROUP; OR (iv) ANY OTHER
MATTER RELATING TO THE DIGITAL BW, THE PRINT YAHOO GROUP.

Yahoo! Groups Links










Please visit the Group Homepage to check the Files, and other resources as 
they are often being updated.

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint

If you wish to receive no emails or just a daily digest, or you wish to 
unsubscribe, please edit your Membership preferences by visiting this same 
page.

Please follow these basic guidelines:
- As threads develop, trim off excess portions of earlier messages to keep 
them short.
- Good manners are required at all time. No personal attacks or flames. 
Hostile, aggressive or argumentative users may be removed from the 
membership without notice.
- Keep your posts and threads related to the group topic of digital B&W 
printing. Users who persistently make off-topic posts may be removed from 
the membership.
- By posting on this forum you agree to abide by the group rules and 
guidelines, and to abide by the actions and decisions of the group Owner and 
Moderators. See "Group Topic, Rules and Guidelines" in the Files section:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint/files/

BY PARTICIPATING IN AND/OR POSTING MESSAGES TO THE DIGITAL BW, THE PRINT 
YAHOO! GROUP YOU EXPRESSLY UNDERSTAND AND AGREE THAT THE "OWNER" AND 
"MODERATORS" OF DIGITAL BW, THE PRINT YAHOO GROUP SHALL NOT BE LIABLE TO YOU 
FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL OR EXEMPLARY 
DAMAGES, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO, DAMAGES FOR LOSS OF PROFITS, 
GOODWILL, USE, DATA OR OTHER INTANGIBLE LOSSES (EVEN IF THE  "OWNER" AND 
"MODERATORS" OF DIGITAL BW, THE PRINT YAHOO GROUP HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF THE 
POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES), RESULTING FROM: (i) THE USE OR THE INABILITY 
TO USE THE DIGITAL BW, THE PRINT YAHOO GROUP; (ii) UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS TO OR 
ALTERATION OF YOUR TRANSMISSIONS OR DATA; (iii) STATEMENTS OR CONDUCT OF ANY 
THIRD PARTY ON THE DIGITAL BW, THE PRINT YAHOO GROUP; OR (iv) ANY OTHER 
MATTER RELATING TO THE DIGITAL BW, THE PRINT YAHOO GROUP.




  SPONSORED LINKS
        Digital wedding photography   Learn digital photography   Digital 
photography college     Digital photography   Digital photography web site 
Digital photography course

---------------------------------
  YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS


    Visit your group "DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint" on the web.

    To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:
 DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com

    Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.


---------------------------------





---------------------------------
How low will we go? Check out Yahoo! Messenger's low  PC-to-Phone call 
rates.

[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]



Please visit the Group Homepage to check the Files, and other resources as 
they are often being updated.

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint

If you wish to receive no emails or just a daily digest, or you wish to 
unsubscribe, please edit your Membership preferences by visiting this same 
page.

Please follow these basic guidelines:
- As threads develop, trim off excess portions of earlier messages to keep 
them short.
- Good manners are required at all time. No personal attacks or flames. 
Hostile, aggressive or argumentative users may be removed from the 
membership without notice.
- Keep your posts and threads related to the group topic of digital B&W 
printing. Users who persistently make off-topic posts may be removed from 
the membership.
- By posting on this forum you agree to abide by the group rules and 
guidelines, and to abide by the actions and decisions of the group Owner and 
Moderators. See "Group Topic, Rules and Guidelines" in the Files section:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint/files/

BY PARTICIPATING IN AND/OR POSTING MESSAGES TO THE DIGITAL BW, THE PRINT 
YAHOO! GROUP YOU EXPRESSLY UNDERSTAND AND AGREE THAT THE "OWNER" AND 
"MODERATORS" OF DIGITAL BW, THE PRINT YAHOO GROUP SHALL NOT BE LIABLE TO YOU 
FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL OR EXEMPLARY 
DAMAGES, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO, DAMAGES FOR LOSS OF PROFITS, 
GOODWILL, USE, DATA OR OTHER INTANGIBLE LOSSES (EVEN IF THE  "OWNER" AND 
"MODERATORS" OF DIGITAL BW, THE PRINT YAHOO GROUP HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF THE 
POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES), RESULTING FROM: (i) THE USE OR THE INABILITY 
TO USE THE DIGITAL BW, THE PRINT YAHOO GROUP; (ii) UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS TO OR 
ALTERATION OF YOUR TRANSMISSIONS OR DATA; (iii) STATEMENTS OR CONDUCT OF ANY 
THIRD PARTY ON THE DIGITAL BW, THE PRINT YAHOO GROUP; OR (iv) ANY OTHER 
MATTER RELATING TO THE DIGITAL BW, THE PRINT YAHOO GROUP.

Yahoo! Groups Links

Move to quarantaine

This moves the raw source file on disk only. The archive index is not changed automatically, so you still need to run a manual refresh afterward.