Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2017/12/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Until now, I had put the buy-a-printer voice out of my mind for a while. Hmmm. Maybe time to rethink. Frank F. Farmer Jackson, Mississippi Sent from my iPhone > On Dec 13, 2017, at 10:22 PM, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> > wrote: > > After my first maybe only lull in printing for many a decade I finally got > an Epson P800 last week (a 17 inch pigment printer) and am ready to get > going on my first new portfolio in a decade and a new show or two. f 17x22 > ? and be there! > I have no nostalgic memories of my darkroom life and output and am finding > no reasons to go back to doing that. > My inkjet prints are in all ways superior than my darkroom output. A > result which is not a minority opinion. > Photographers who were five or ten years ago offering their images in both > inkjet and darkroom are not doing the darkroom option any more. > Inkjet prints look like a cross between a platinum print and a silver > gelatin darkroom. > They look better not worse than any process black and white or color > darkroom print. > I use Hahnem?hle Photo Rag? 308gsm 100% Cotton white paper. > > There was no 100% rag cotton paper ever made for darkroom work that I know > of. > Your matt board for sure was 100% rag cotton. Your prints had plenty of > wood pulp in it. > > -- > > Mark William Rabiner > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information