Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2014/04/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I spent about $1000 on supplies and 4 months to make digital negs work with my HP Z3100, but just couldn't. Of course at that time I was trying to do digital silver (you know, for fun :-) ). Now Z3100 is now have been "dying" for a year+ now. When it finally expires, I will probably get the 3800 or its follow-on. There are just a lot more experiential wisdom with doing digital neg with Epson. On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 12:46 PM, Pablo Kolodny <pkolodny1 at icloud.com>wrote: > 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > -- // richard <http://www.richardmanphoto.com> // http://facebook.com/richardmanphoto