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They were printed the same and laid one on top of the other. This puts the thickness of one film between each image which was the practice when using contrast control masks on transparencies when printing Cibachromes.

The iP8760 has very limited ink settings however I have never found the need to explore the colour ink options. When Photoshop Manages the color with the printer profile Cannon iP8700 series GL3 I get a very warm toned print/neg with the Grayscale option ticked in the print settings. These...

The ink density is fairly low and not good enough for salt or Van Dyke Brown. But I have tested a run around solution on a Van Dyke Brown of using an old photographic technique of a contrast control mask. I simply printed two negatives with registration marks, aligned and sandwiched them...

Thanks, I will be interested to see how the Canon printer handles it. I have also just ordered a salt print kit to see if my printer can handle it.

Thanks revdoc and koraks. I suppose its about horses for courses. My interest in all this started with carbon printing for which the iP8760 has performed admirably with my TruNeg negatives and have never had the need to examine the UV opacity of the negative other than its adequacy to achieve a...

I do not have a transmission densitometer so I cannot say, however a negative RGB value of 8, and probably up to 11 or 12, holds a clean white with an exposure time that gives a Dmax through Pictorico clear film of 1.31.

I am getting a Dmax of 1.31 on the cyanotype measured with a Datacolor Spectro

Getting back to the printer question, in defence of the (much) cheaper Canon iP8760, the inks have perfectly adequate opacity for my carbon prints and the Gold Street Cyanotype kit on Pictorico film. Absolutely no banding or any sign of nozzle clogging even if unused for days and the 1 picolitre...

I purchased the ip8760 to make digital negatives for carbon printing and have only looked at paper prints briefly. The Canon iP8700 series GL3 profile is very warm and consistent across the tones. There are several other profiles that come with the printer which may be more neutral.

Hi I use a Canon Pixma iP8760 A3+ which has two black and one grey ink (+YMC) which has performed perfectly for making negatives with my TruNeg digital negative program. See post October 1. My only issue is that the ink cartridges are a bit small but overall I find very good value.

Firstly let me declare a financial interest in the program called TruNeg referred to in this post and that I am the creator of that program. The principle behind TruNeg is that there is such a thing as a perfect reversal of the positive image. In view of my commercial interest in this I have...