[Leica] Two B&W with film

[Frank]

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 


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> On Dec 13, 2017, at 10:22 PM, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> wrote:
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> 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 Hahnemühle 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.
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> Mark William Rabiner
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