Hi guys (and Calam), I've got a technical question that maybe someone's looked at. I have a new body of work, all shot on 8x10 film, that I want to print quite small in comparison to my earlier huge prints. These new ones will be 11x14 or so, and I want to print them with as much detail and tonal information as possible. I could use my Epson 9800 of course, and at the 2880 setting that would be pretty dang good. But I'm thinking about contact prints that I've seen over the years, and as many purists have pointed out on this forum, there is just something about contact prints that pretty much blows everything else out of the water.
So here's my question: Would it be possible to acheive higher-quality results if I had my scans made into 11x14 internegatives using the highest-quality film recorder out there, and then contact printed those onto Type C paper? I think it would depend on how good the film recorders are (I don't know what dpi they are capable of), and then also on the grain and resolving power of Fuji Crystal Archive paper. Does anyone know how these two factors would compare with inkjet prints made at 2880 dpi?
Any thoughts would be much appreciated, as always.
~cj (Seattle)
www.chrisjordan.com
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