[Leica] Re: Epson 3800 whose GOT THEM now printing

[mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)]

On 2/15/07 11:32 PM, "Brian Reid" <reid@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> typed:

>> From 1962, when I made my first print in a darkroom, until I couldn't get 
>> it
>> any more, I printed my portraits on Ansco Indiatone paper developed in
>> Dektol.  When that ran out I switched to Polycontrast G and Selectol. I 
>> never
>> really learned to love any other papers, but tried 'em all -- Forte, 
>> Seagull,
>> you name it.
> 
> I like Crane Museo Silver Rag paper imaged in my Epson 3800 printer better
> than anything else I've ever used. The good old days were romantic but the
> prints are better now. I've pulled out some old negatives from the 1960s 
> and
> 1970s and scanned them and printed them with my modern system and compared 
> the
> prints to what's in my storage boxes. There's no comparison: the new prints
> are just better. More shadow detail, more luminous highlights, richer 
> blacks
> (I didn't previously think it was
> possible to have a richer black than what I got with Indiatone).
> 
> Brian
> 
> 
> 
It seems hard to believe to people you could get better blacks with pigments
and inks on matt paper than you could with silver on semigloss but its been
that way for a few years now certainly in my direct experience and I got
pretty good blacks in my darkroom work and someway will again.
I think the blacks we've been getting with inkjet for few years now competes
well against the best Platinum Prints. Long known as the best blacks in the
bizness I think.



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