At 02:10 PM 9/29/2005, Frantisek wrote:
and also there is an option of printing B&W inkjet for contact printing (even platinum!) on a wide choice of transparent inkjet foils. Look arond platinum printing sites, there should be links and reports. Also, Fuji's older digital print system (Pictograph?) offered printing up to A3 sized sheets of transparent foil. Obviously the printer you use must have large enough paper size for contact printing at your desired print size, and you need copy frames and a good consistent light source for this (if you indeed want to print to normal B&W paper, unlike platinotype where the Sun is the cheap and consistent light source <g>).
This option sounds interesting. It's probably the cheapest to experiment with. I'm not sure if you would really need to print onto a transparent medium with the inkjet printer. You can still contact print with a "paper negative" (a normal inkjet print.) For a B&W silver print, this should require the least amount of equipment, and I might try it some day.
take care, Glen
