[Leica] The death of the silver gelatin prints

[mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)]

It must be a great feeling to in the world of serious image making in this
exciting transition time in the history of photography have made a
difference.
"making a difference" isn't that what most of use wish for our lives?

That and a nice tuna and cheese sandwich on good rye bread.

I'm looking forward to someday be printing with Carbon.

" in the human body carbon is the second most abundant element by mass
(about 18.5%) after oxygen."
The internet.

- - from my iRabs.
Mark Rabiner
http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/springdays/


> From: Paul Roark <roark.paul at gmail.com>
> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2012 20:20:17 -0700
> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> Subject: Re: [Leica] The death of the silver gelatin prints
> 
> Looks is, of course, somewhat subjective.   I personally like the
> matte carbon prints better than my silver prints.  I usually use some
> permutation of "Eboni-6" --
> http://www.paulroark.com/BW-Info/Eboni-6.pdf .  This approach will
> work on almost all Epson printers.  I generally use and/or support the
> Epson 1100, 1400, and 7800.
> 
> In addition to making the most stable images, it's also the cheapest
> way to go.   MIS Associates sells the carbon and dilute versions at
> http://www.inksupply.com/eb6.cfm and a few other URLs.  However, to be
> sure even starving artists and others with limited budgets (like me)
> could print without concern for price, I also published a formula for
> a generic dilution base.  See
> http://www.paulroark.com/BW-Info/Ink-Mixing.pdf   Commercial dilute
> inks are *very* expensive water.  These bases also work with HP
> (pigments, not printers) and probably Epson pigments (when I run out
> of Epson K3 LM, I'll mix it from Epson M.)
> 
> The dilute inks virtually never clog because there is no binder in the
> base.  The daughter who just finished 4 years at UCSC used an Epson
> C88 with the home brew base and Eboni in it.  It was fed by a CIS.
> I'd just top it off in the summer.  I didn't even bother to clean out
> the CIS unit.  It lasted 4 years.  The base has proven good enough
> that MIS has decided to mix and sell it itself.  (If you can't beat
> them ...)
> 
> Epson printers are all I deal with because the piezo head is much more
> tolerant of higher and variable viscosities than the thermal heads of
> HP and Canon.
> 
> The idea is to keep the home "darkroom" a place where anyone can mix
> their own chemicals and no company can dominate B&W or make undo
> profits on what is really a very simple product.  In addition to
> individual photographers, a number of professional studios and photo
> schools are now mixing their own inks and saving a whole lot of money.
> 
> Paul
> www.PaulRoark.com
> 
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