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Pictorico transparency settings

Pictorico transparency settings

2019-01-23 by Lori Adams

Hi, I am just starting with digital negatives and have a roll of Pictorico transparency paper. I have tried it in both a 4880 and p5000 and get many scratches in the direction the media travels. There are more on the p5000, even when I widen the platen gap. Are there others settings I should adjust?

My intent is to make negatives that I will contact from on fiber based darkroom paper.

If that doesn’t work well, then I will try to put in third party blacks in the 4880.

I have never seen evidence of the scratches in any of the other papers I have printed on for over 10 years

Thank you.

Lori
Lori Adams
Lori Adams Photo
www.loriadamsphoto.com
Lori@loriadamsphoto.com
845.227.3775

Re: [QuadtoneRIP] Pictorico transparency settings

2019-01-23 by Simone Simoncini

I always exprerienced a bit of scratching with transparent media. In my processes it was never an issue because alt techniques does not have so much resolving power, even platinum. Pizza wheels (not your case, I gather on the contrary do show on most final print no matter what the technique in use is) . It can be different though with silver gelatine. while to avoid pizza wheels you can use front loading paper, I think the fine scratches come from the advancement mechanism (the little rubber rollers) and they cannot be avoided. I am saying this because their pattern seem consistent with the arrangement of the rollers.
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On Wed, Jan 23, 2019 at 2:46 AM Lori Adams lori@...m [QuadtoneRIP] <QuadtoneRIP@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

Hi, I am just starting with digital negatives and have a roll of Pictorico transparency paper. I have tried it in both a 4880 and p5000 and get many scratches in the direction the media travels. There are more on the p5000, even when I widen the platen gap. Are there others settings I should adjust?

My intent is to make negatives that I will contact from on fiber based darkroom paper.

If that doesn’t work well, then I will try to put in third party blacks in the 4880.

I have never seen evidence of the scratches in any of the other papers I have printed on for over 10 years

Thank you.

Lori
Lori Adams
Lori Adams Photo
www.loriadamsphoto.com
Lori@...
845.227.3775

Re: [QuadtoneRIP] Pictorico transparency settings

2019-01-23 by Mark Savoia

Contacting on fiberbase darkroom paper will show EVERY imperfection in the neg. There are only a few printers, inks, and softwares that will get you a neg without the artifacts hidden by alternative processes. From my experience, nothing in the wide format venue, its all about ink droplet size.

Mark
stillrivereditions.com
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> On Jan 23, 2019, at 9:30 AM, Simone Simoncini ssimoncini@... [QuadtoneRIP] <QuadtoneRIP@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
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> 
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> I always exprerienced a bit of scratching with transparent media. In my processes it was never an issue because alt techniques does not have so much resolving power, even platinum. Pizza wheels (not your case, I gather on the contrary do show on most final print no matter what the technique in use is) . It can be different though with silver gelatine. while to avoid pizza wheels you can use front loading paper, I think the fine scratches come from the advancement mechanism (the little rubber rollers) and they cannot be avoided. I am saying this because their pattern seem consistent with the arrangement of the rollers.
> 
> On Wed, Jan 23, 2019 at 2:46 AM Lori Adams lori@... <mailto:lori@...> [QuadtoneRIP] <QuadtoneRIP@yahoogroups.com <mailto:QuadtoneRIP@yahoogroups.com>> wrote:
> Hi, I am just starting with digital negatives and have a roll of Pictorico transparency paper. I have tried it in both a 4880 and p5000 and get many scratches in the direction the media travels. There are more on the p5000, even when I widen the platen gap. Are there others settings I should adjust?
> 
> My intent is to make negatives that I will contact from on fiber based darkroom paper.
> 
> If that doesn’t work well, then I will try to put in third party blacks in the 4880.
> 
> I have never seen evidence of the scratches in any of the other papers I have printed on for over 10 years
> 
> Thank you.
> 
> Lori
> Lori Adams
> Lori Adams Photo
> www.loriadamsphoto.com <http://www.loriadamsphoto.com/>
> Lori@... <mailto:Lori@...>
> 845.227.3775
> 
> 
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