[rollei_list] Re: Print Exchange(what am I looking at?)
- From: eroustom@xxxxxxxxxxx
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- Date: Fri, 23 May 2008 17:59:23 +0000
Hahnemühle. We use their Copper Plate paper to letterpress on. Best paper I've
ever used - though it sluffs off fibers like mad as it runs through the press,
and has been responsible for several sinus aches.
That Epson is a $15,000 machine. Cutting edge stuff. How do the prints look?
E.
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From: <dlp4777@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> I am hole up today in a rental color lab in Portland and they make digital
> art
> prints and they are in the middle of a huge print job(we are talking 100K)
> making 40x60 black and white prints from scanned 4x5 TXP negs. The printer
> they
> are using is an Epson 11880 and they are printing with Epson Ultra Chrome ink
> on
> Hamamuel(SP?) photo rag. How close is this to state of the art in digital
> printing quality?
> Dennis
>
>
> Mark Rabiner wrote:
>
> > > I don't think we need to agonize over this. Let each medium speak for
> > > itself and its practitioner. The common element will be the Rollei
> > > negative, and I promise a very attractive enclosure.
> > >
> > > As for a test of competence, getting this exchange going seems very
> > > complicated. How did Daniel make putting his book together seem so easy?
> > >
> > > Elias
> > >
> > I think develop, stop, fix, wash is pretty darned easy.
> > Darkroom printing is easy.
> > Its real easy to get an image.
> > Its not so easy to get an image which looks like the stuff that we see on
> > gallery walls with the rich blacks and silvery tones and or glow. But people
> > do luck out if they put enough time and paper in.
> > I think its easier to luck out when making an inkjet print and achieving a
> > high quality result.
> >
> > The good thing about prints are they are IN HAND results.
> > You can talk about numbers and history and theory all you want but with IN
> > HAND RESULTS that you are looking that with ones eyeballs that is the common
> > denominator and it ain't low.
> > One can flip though ones stack of prints and say poo to the platinum from
> > Dennis, or "icky!" from the inkjet from yours truly if that's your reaction.
> > You'll react before you know what is is and how it was done and who did it.
> >
> > The proof is in the pudding and the print is the pudding.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > ....................
> > Mark William Rabiner
> >
> >
> >
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