Digital BW, The Print

Alan,

What you are looking for is a "film recorder" that transfers digital files/images onto film. Been around for quite awhile.

I gave it a try back in the late  90's. Scanned a neg, worked on it in Photoshop, had the file output to 35mm file by a service bureau and then I printed on silver gelatin in my darkroom. The results were very poor.

Too many steps. The image is being degraded with each change of medium and in my case did not survive. If I had owned the film recorder and been able to do some calibration the results would have been better but I don't believe that they would have been acceptable.

But the tech may have improved in the last decade. If you find something outthere let us know.

Thanks,
Martin Wesley

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Alan" <alanj.martin@...> wrote:
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> Hello,
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> I know this will sound strange but it is out of artistic curiosity I would like to try this. Is there any method of getting a scanned in B&W negative image that has been Photo shopped back into some format I could put in an enlarger and print using traditional wet printing? I have a Beseler 23CII enlarger and B&W darkroon set up. 
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> Thanks
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> Alan
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