[rollei_list] Re: Print Exchange(what am I looking at?)
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- Date: Fri, 23 May 2008 10:48:56 -0700
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.
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> Mark William Rabiner
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