Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/08/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Full bleed 11x14. On the inkjet, A3 heavyweight matte was used. S. Dimitrov > From: "B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net> > Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org> > Date: Sun, 15 Aug 2004 19:48:50 -0400 > To: "'Leica Users Group'" <lug@leica-users.org> > Subject: RE: [Leica] Inkjet printng > > What size prints? > > -----Original Message----- > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information