[Leica] Inkjet printng

[bdcolen at earthlink.net (B. D. Colen)]

What size prints?

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From: lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org
[mailto:lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of
Slobodan Dimitrov
Sent: Sunday, August 15, 2004 6:03 PM
To: lug@leica-users.org
Subject: [Leica] Inkjet printng


A little episode for the not faint of heart.

I'm included in an exhibit at the Banning landing Community Center. This
is about 100 years of pile-driving in the Port of LA. It was decided
that we should make inkjet prints, for convenience, of my PN55 (4x5)
negs. Well, after a few days of trying to run some, off an calibrated PC
screen, unto a Canon i9000, I threw in the towel. That printer is a real
piece of junk. The photo reviews that have tried comparing it to an
Epson are outright dishonest and deceitful. The Epson is literally a
plug and print machine compared to the Canon. I can also see why they
are no longer in the film scanning business. Maybe they could fool the
prosumer buyer, but definitely not the commercial user. Thankfully that
piece of Canon junk is not mine. I decided to go back to the darkroom,
for my convenience sake this time, and do it properly once and for all.
It took me two hours to print the 20 images we needed. With extras, I
did 28 prints. After I inspected them, I redid 4 more which took another
20 minutes. A last inspection determined that I needed to redo three
more, in order to match the tones in the highlights with the other
prints. By 1:20pm I was done, and on the road with dried prints by 2pm. 
That meant I was in the darkroom from 10am until 2pm, a total of four
hours. Even printing with other Epson models, I can't replicate that
kind of speed and quality. And, we're talking about silver gelatin
prints here, not that other stuff. S. Dimitrov

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