Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/07/09
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I'm like Daniel in social aversion to traditional darkroom, as well as getting better results from inkjet. It took some time at the beginning to work it out, but now I'm very pleased with my results. I'm one who gets the negs developed at Costco, where they also do small scans which are ok for the web. Anything I like enough to print gets scanned by me on my neg scanner. I print on an Epson2200 on Epson Enhanced Matte or Hahnemuhle Photo Rag paper, mostly at either 8x10 or 12x18. I have an exhibit up now, and some photos in a group show, and all were printed like this. Hope this helps, Aaron Quoting Daniel Ridings <dlridings@gmail.com>: > Scott, > > I print everything (almost) with inkjet now-a-days. I print mostly A4 > (approx. 8x10) but quite a lot of A3 as well (twice as big). > > I still have a darkroom, but I honestly do not use it very much any > more. In fact, I get better prints from inkjet than I got in the > darkroom (I'm a little too social to hide in the darkroom for hours at > a time anymore, so I don't have the patience). > > I'm doing an exhibit in Sept/Oct and I haven't fully decided. I just > might go in to the darkroom for that. Otherwise, for routine every > week (day) printing, it's inkjet, all the way. > > There is a "lug print exchange" group, about 17 of us, I think, who > exchange prints. There's all kinds: traditional darkroom prints > (beautiful prints) and digital prints (beautiful prints). > > In the long run, what matters is a routine that will make it easy for > you to make a lot of prints. There's no point with all this > photography unless you get prints out. I routinely do a scan and pull > out a proof, so I have prints all over the place. > > Daniel > > On 7/9/05, Scott McLoughlin <scott@adrenaline.com> wrote: > > > I'm trying to "dial in" my own expectations, particularly self-scanned/ > > digi-printed B&W prints vs. lab/wet printed prints (I don't have my own > > darkroom). > > > > Scott > >