Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/10/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hi Mark, Interesting that stuff of printing duotones with "color" inks. By the way, the Speed Graphic helps thinking of a sort of hand painted old photograph. Also that cloth ... Maybe playing further with tones in the quadtone window would help to get more interesting stuff out there. I'd like to see skin tones and some others, maybe you have any to post... Regards - -- Pablo Kolodny www.pablokolodny.com > From: Mark Rabiner <mark@rabiner.cncoffice.com> > Organization: Mark Rabiner Photography > Reply-To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2001 07:25:58 -0700 > To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > Subject: Re: [Leica] Piezo printing > >> <Snip> >> (This was actually my reason for buying Piezo in the first place -- the >> non-grayness of prints made using either black or color inks in the Epson >> driver. Piezo is, apart from anything else, a MASSIVE improvement over these >> IMO). >> >> -- >> John Brownlow >> >> http://www.pinkheadedbug.com >> >> -- > Johnny D and John RF lets not forget the more extreme solution. > In my case my Epson 750 has the quadtone inks in it while my 1200 has the > Color > Archival inks in it. > The 750 goes to letter sized while the 1200 goes to 11x17 supera3/b. > > So when i want a large print from a black and white neg i'm inclined to have > some fun with it. I'm not about to just use the black ink in the Inkset. I'm > wanting to use a many inks as possible. > So i convert the greyscale image to a duotone or in my case quadtone with > process inks. > The shadows use a lot of cyan ink, the highlights go green and the mid tones i > dont' know what. > I have standard saved quadtones but I'll tweak them for each image. > Not for the black and white purist but loads of fun. > And exactly the thing I'd dreamed of being able to do in my darkroom for > decades. > Here's a not very good example of a "duotone" treatment from my website. > http://www.rabiner.cncoffice.com/ImagePages/SpeedGraphicMini.html > > > > Mark Rabiner > > Portland, Oregon > USA > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html