I do my BW contact sheets digitally. I scan them on an Agfa Duoscan 2500
T we have at work and print them on an Epson 1200. Just fine for
contacts. But my experiments with printing digital BW photos have been
just so-so. The darkroom is still the best place for that. I have had
good success scanning BW from negatives for web images. My PUG
submission for this month is just such an animal.
Paul
"Mark D." wrote:
>
> From: Aaron Reynolds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> > My colour darkroom has been shut down. My black and white darkroom is
> > still quite active, for two reasons:
> >
> > 1) it's a pain in the ass to do a contact sheet digitally,
> > 2) without a printer that has been converted for monochrome printing,
> > digital black and white isn't acceptable to me. Yet. I'm converting an
> > old Epson Stylus Photo 1200 over for b&w printing, and we'll see how it
> > goes...but I have a feeling that it won't replace fibre based paper for
> me.
>
> Hey Aaron,
>
> Are you gonna use the Peizography software and inks or are you gonna work
> with the MIS Hextone inks? My exploration into digital B&W has not been very
> satisfactory. I worked with the MIS inks and both systems really seem more
> ideally suited to produce platinum type prints. Prints on the fine art type
> paper come out good. But when glossy type papers are used, there are lots of
> weird reflections and color shifts (yes, with a dedicated B&W inkset). But
> in terms of making prints that look like fibre base, it doesn't seem like
> it's there. Of course, there may be papers that I haven't tried yet. So, I
> hope you'll keep us updated...
>
> Thanks,
>
> Mark
>
> Mark
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