Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/06/19

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Subject: [Leica] The death of the silver gelatin prints
From: richard at richardmanphoto.com (Richard Man)
Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2012 20:23:07 -0700

Folks might remember that I tried doing digital negative before. In the
end, unsuccessfully because my HP Z3100 is just not good for that
particular type of task (digital negative for silver contact prints -
apparently, it works great for digital negatives with alternative process).
Eventually when I have to replace the Z3100, I will probably get an Epson
and try the experiment again.

Meanwhile, since I have to make some 17x22 prints for a couple gallery
shows, I got a 8x10 sample print from Digital Silver where you upload the
digital file and they print it using some sort of LED laser and then
processed in wet chemical.

I make the same print on the Z. Comparing to the Z3100 printing on Gloss
Baryta, it's no comparison, the inkjet print looks better in every way.

So Z+Gloss Baryta it is.

-- 
// richard <http://www.richardmanphoto.com>


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