Does anyone make an affordable enlarger that will do projection printing from digital files?
Would love to be able to tweak the pixelographs and then print them in my darkroom on silver papers.
Does anyone make an affordable enlarger that will do projection printing from digital files?
Would love to be able to tweak the pixelographs and then print them in my darkroom on silver papers.
They're called Lightjets...
http://www.largeformatphotography.in...-Digital-Files
Though, I assume you might get acceptable home-brewed results printing with an inkjet (assuming you have one) onto Pictorico and then contacting.
That is what my Lambda does but the unit cost me the price of a house.
Deveere makes a digital enlarger you may be able to find at a reasonable price.
You could do your corrections digitally and then output to LVT negs and use your normal enlarging equipment. You can also make contact prints from well constructed pigment negs using your darkroom. I have made and done both for clients and each has its own benefits.
http://www.de-vere.com/products.htm
"Affordable" depends on your budget. The DeVere isn't so cheap.
If you have a photo quality inkjet printer, you can make inkjet negs, which aren't bad for fixing things that are hard to retouch by hand or that would require complicated masking techniques to do by traditional means, or for printing from a digital original to silver paper or alt process.
The people I've talked to who have actually used the Devere digital weren't exactly thrilled with the performance. Reminds me of the latest edition of NG. There's are some
remarkable b&w tornado and cloud shots published in it, but with conspicuous banding on
every image. Maybe they're trying to be artsy by leaving conspicuous process-generated
blemishes, but I found it quite distracting.
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