Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2014/04/21

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Subject: [Leica] Anyone here tried Platinum printing?
From: richard at richardmanphoto.com (Richard Man)
Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2014 14:06:09 -0700
References: <CF79C3F9.1C264%mark@rabinergroup.com> <sPPJ1n0040AFV7C01PPK6P@mac.com> <53545BAC.8040601@cox.net> <45449234-3980-4DA5-9CE2-6E54A5CDCBBF@icloud.com> <CAF8hL-GUeqGYGMCfUCr4=Md-nNiB-YPs82R2s9kCJczQ1coKZw@mail.gmail.com> <D51873ED-37AF-4A86-AC1A-6E4043ED9E86@icloud.com>

Yes, I might have done a "fool's errand" :-) And now my Z3100 will not
calibrated for new paper. It all started with a broken belt a couple years
ago, which I replaced, and then the controller board dies... etc.


On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 1:52 PM, Pablo Kolodny <pkolodny1 at icloud.com> 
wrote:

> My Z3100 works great and I didn't spend that much to make it work.
> Sorry to hear that.
> But let me tell you something, many people just don't like making negs for
> silver.
> Maybe that is a wrong choice to experiment with the making of digital
> negatives.
> I hope you can get some fun one way or the other but $ 1,000 in four
> months sound too much for me, not fun at all.
>
> There's a lot of Epson printers you can play with out there. I hope you
> can find one that fits your tastes.
>
> P
>
> On Apr 21, 2014, at 5:15 PM, Richard Man wrote:
>
> > 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:
>
>
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// richard <http://www.richardmanphoto.com>
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