I have made digital negatives with several different Epson printers using QuadToneRIP and believe that overall this is the easiest approach, due both to the power of QTR, and to the fact that there is a very wide user base of knowledge of people use Epson printers to make digital negatives.
There is a new book about using QuadToneRIP for crafting digital negative scheduled for release some time this fall. You can read about it here.
ttps://www.amazon.com/Digital-Negatives-QuadToneRIP-Demystifying-Photographers-dp-0367862298/dp/0367862298/ref=mt_other?_encoding=UTF8&me=&qid=
Sandy
Last edited by sanking; 11-Sep-2020 at 16:57.
For discussion and information about carbon transfer please visit the carbon group at groups.io
[url]https://groups.io/g/carbon
There's also: https://www.bwmastery.com/
“You often feel tired, not because you've done too much, but because you've done too little of what sparks a light in you.”
― Alexander Den Heijer, Nothing You Don't Already Know
Just to clarify, QuadToneRIP is a print driver (only works with Epson printers) that supports several different types of program solutions for making digital negatives. Many solutions are available, one being Richard Boutwell's QuadToneProfiler-QuickCurve-DN tools, another is the PiezoDN solution from Cone Editions, and many of us who use QuadToneRIP to craft digital negativess use our own personal approach. QuadToneRIP itself was created by Roy Harrington, the first person to use it for making digital negatives was Ron Reeder who introduced the methodology around 2005, and published a booklet on the subject called Digital Negatives for palladium and other alternative processes in 2010.
All of this, and a lot of other interesting information is covered in the soon to be published new book.
Sandy
For discussion and information about carbon transfer please visit the carbon group at groups.io
[url]https://groups.io/g/carbon
I bought a reconditioned Epson P400, on the recommendation of Sandy King last year on the carbon transfer forum. 13 inch wide is plenty big for me. It's 1.5 drop size results in smooth tones. After the coloured inks ran out, I purchased refillable cartridges, and now run all blacks, except for one yellow, as it's a good UV blocker. I make carbon transfer, Kallitype, Cyanotype, Tri-colour gym negatives.
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