On Apr 10, 2005, at 8:25 AM, Frantisek wrote:
Hi, as sacrilegous as it is to me, I have some B&W conversions from digital which I would really like to have as fiber B&W prints (e.g. the frontpage photograph on my website).
I am not much keen on printing them on Frontier (even though the new 370 offers 600 DPI, it is still only 8-bit output) or inkjet.
I recall somebody (Godfrey?) talking a while back about using laser
film writers to output the negative for platinum printing. The same
could be perhaps used to produce a tweaked 35mm negative for traditional
B&W printing (no one yet here in Prague has the new Durst digital
enlarger, which could be great for it, as it looked very promising,
and _very_ expensive, although one pro printer mentioned thinking about
getting one...).
Anybody has any pointers or hints or experience with this?
I used film writers quite a bit back when I was at NASA, but not since. The process I think I mentioned is making digital inkjet negatives for darkroom contact printing. ... Dan Burkholder was a pioneer in this process:
http://www.danburkholder.com/
Godfrey
