Filmwasters
Which Board? => Main Forum => : LeonY July 03, 2012, 01:29:26 PM
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Im trying to print a Digitally captured picture onto a film(plastic, celulose...etc...this is my problem) to create a negative to then use in an enlarger to print onto BW paper in the darkroom! I have run into issues.!
1st my Laser Printer gave me shocking results like, at 600dpi it was practically useless.
So i picked up an ok-ish Epson Inkjet this gave me better results. I have tried to print onto Clear Photo Film(already developed blank off cuts) and inkjet transparencies. The film off cuts were ok but the ink bled into itself, enlarged it looks silly! The transparencies gave much better results but the ink cracks in spots where there is allot of black:
The 1st picture is printer on off cuts of 120 Film(on the sticky side, i tried the other side but that was a waste of ink) the second is on inkjet transparancies.. can anyone recommend a better way to do this?
PS: the pictures you see are taken from the base of the enlarger head
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Why not make a digital print from a Fuji Frontier to 8x10 then make a copy negative with low contrast B&W film (larger the better.
Mark Antony
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Photographers Formulary carries InkPress Transparency Film for this process. I have used it with great success on an Epson 2880 printer and an Epson 4880.
Mark
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Hi All
Just a gentle reminder that this forum is for the discussion of pictures that originate on film, or the cameras that are used to create them.
cheers
L.
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Sorry Leon!
I misunderstood/misread. I thought he was starting with film and just wanted to make larger negatives. My bad!
Mark
:-[
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Gotcha....ill have to look elsewhere
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Just to say that those transparencies are made for contact printing, not enlarging.