Originally Posted by
Barry Kirsten
Getting ready to try making digital negatives for alt printing. My reading strongly suggests that pigment inks are desirable because they are opaque to UVA, whereas dye based inks are less so and their response less controllable. I only have a dye based printer and no room in the budget at this stage for a printer upgrade. My main question is whether dye based digital negs are doable, and if so what tricks can be used (if any) to overcome the limitations of dye inks? Thanks for any comments.
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