[pure-silver] Re: Grain
- From: Christopher Woodhouse <chris.woodhouse@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2006 21:25:25 +0000
I also have been trying these plastic films with a Cannon i9950. Although
the negative looks good up to the light, you must squash the image side
absolutely to the paper, (no mean feat with wavy fibre paper), to get a
sharp transfer. On top of that, it is very easy in areas of flat tone to see
the dither striations of the inkjet head. (Before you ask, the nozzles are
all firing and the alignment is done on the film too). Calibration is fun
too, not impossible, but stretching the capabilities of the subtlety of
dense ink gradation. I did experiment briefly with a Gamma setting of 3,
(which puts more shadow resolution into a normal inkjet print) which did
work to some tonal advantage. However, the comparative quality and
reproducibility of halftone negatives is not to be underestimated for silver
gelatine prints,.... you just need to find a local imagesetter.
Chris Woodhouse ARPS
On 10/1/06 15:38, "Tim Rudman" <tim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> Results are only suitable for contact printing Len, not for enlargement.
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> The best I know of are:
> Pictorico OHP Transparency film
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> Pictorico Photo Gallery Hi-Gloss White Film - a more expensive white glossy
> film that is much denser (semi-opaque) than OHP film. It holds ink better
> and gives better detail and tonality for the unforgiving nature of glossy
> silver prints. It can be printed through, but at the price of greatly
> extended exposure times.
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> Permajet Digital Transfer film - a similar transparent coated Clear High
> Gloss Film and less expensive than the Pictorico above, using the same
> ceramic particle technology.
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> Fotospeed Digital Contact Film is also a clear gloss ceramic technology
> film, slightly thinner - I will be starting tests shortly.
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> Tim
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Len Eselson [mailto:leneselson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: 10 January 2006 15:25
> To: pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx; Tim Rudman
> Subject: Re: [pure-silver] Re: Grain
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> Tim,
> What materials did you use for your negatives made on inkjet printers ?
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> I tried to make digital masks on inkjet printers for conventional printing,
> and for the materials I tried, found that they had a coating of some sort,
> arranged in an orderly grid, which showed up in the print when it was
> enlarged (MF negs, 16X20 prints)
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> I tried various materials, and printers. The best being the Epson 2200, and
> Pictorico Transparancy Film but the results were not acceptable.
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> Have you found a combination which allows enlargement in the range of 8-10
> times ?
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> Thanks
>
> Len Eselson
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> On Tue, 10 Jan 2006 08:34:47 -0000, Tim Rudman wrote:
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>> I have been experimenting a little with digital negatives, intended for
>> silver, but also some examples with platinum.
>> I joined Dan Burkholder on one of his 1 week workshops at the Formulary
>> last year before giving mine there.
>> I have compared image setter icefield negs and those from a number of
>> inkjet printers (UK - 1290, 2100, 1400 - or I believe in the US 1280,
>> 2200 & 2400)and on a variety of 'negative' materials.
>> The results from desktop inkjet printers are getting pretty good for
>> hand coated papers now. Silver gelatine glossy is less forgiving and
>> results are not bad at all and silver gelatine matt. s/matt and
>> textured are good. I imagine that they will continue to improve.
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>> Tim
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