Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2014/04/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Ken sorry for the delay, I was looking for your message but couldn't find it on my iphone. I'm at the computer now where every thing comes easier. I'm not saying HP is better than Epson, I know most of people making digital negs are on Epson. What I've found out after trying Dan Burkholder's and Mark Nelson's techniques is that my Epson, an old R1800 which it is known for having smaller jets giving then higher resolution, is not blocking UV enough. Then, as told in some earlier message, a friend of mine got the HP Z3200, I made some tests and saw the whole thing was much more straight forward than with any other technique and/or Epson. Then I also tried and got an older printer, a HP Z3100 which blocks UV well. But am not using any of HP curves making either because I had to run back and forth to my friend's and bother him with my stuff. I'm glad now am working with chart throb to make curves and my printing works faster and smoother than ever. HP application on the Z3200 series is a piece of cake, wish I could get one too. Other methods require a ton of interpretations, maths, calculations, calibration is pretty hard. I'm not the kind of guy interested in technicalities, all I want is to focus on my work, shooting, processing, printing. cheers Pablo On Apr 20, 2014, at 8:43 PM, Ken Carney wrote: > Pablo, > > I see that HP has an application for making digital negatives on the > Z3200, for silver and pt/pd. Can you tell us why the HP is preferable to > the Epson for this purpose? Thx for any information. > > Ken