Digital BW, The Print

> You comments about the state of the technology for outputting great
> digital negs for contact printing on silver or platinum with
> imagesetters kind of gave me a jolt. I didn't know it was disappearing
> that fast, but it shouldn't have surprised me. Things are moving along
> quicker than we can keep up sometimes. But life goes on and new things
> replace the old and so will Lenswork and your limited edition
portfolios.
> 
> Thanks for the comments, we appreciate it,
> 
> John
> 


Curiously enough, the problems we have been having do not show up
(fortunately) when one uses digital negatives for platinum printing. I
have seen 300-line screen negatives make stunning platinum prints
whereas a 300-line screen negative shows obvious dots in a silver
print. I suspect this has to do with the paper fibers and texture of a
platinum print helping to disguise the dots -- as compared to the
higher resolution of silver paper which requires a 425-line screen to
achieve the same visual effect. Funny, but the older printing
technologies marry more successfully with digital negatives than the
newer ones! What a strange world we live in.
Brooks Jensen
Editor, LensWork Publishing
Written Monday August 22, 2005 at 10:15AM