Color images on Pictorico OHP Tranparency?

timlayton

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• Apr 2, 2011

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Is it worth my time from a quality perspective to even try and print color images on transparency film like the Pictorico OHP Transparency film? I am about to pursue creating some digital negatives for contact printing in the darkroom, but had a thought that maybe it would be interesting to try and emulate color slides on the Pictorico film. If anyone has any experience and comments I would appreciate it. I would be interested in a quality comparison between a color image printed on the transparency film and traditional color slides.

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• Apr 3, 2011

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I have limited experience doing this, but a while back I printed some small color photographs on Arista OHP with my 3800 and K3 inks. Basically, they looked great but what I really wanted to try was a transfer to watercolor paper, which worked beautifully. Very interesting effect...

 

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• Apr 3, 2011

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PVia said:

I have limited experience doing this, but a while back I printed some small color photographs on Arista OHP with my 3800 and K3 inks. Basically, they looked great but what I really wanted to try was a transfer to watercolor paper, which worked beautifully. Very interesting effect...

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How did you do your image transfers Paul?

Don

 

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• Apr 3, 2011

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Don Bryant said:

How did you do your image transfers Paul?

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I would be interested in knowing this as well.

 

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Well, start with a small image to get the hang of it because it can get messy.

Rub some alcohol gel on the paper in the area you want the image to appear; hand sanitizer is fine. Contact the image to the paper and use a brayer or bone folder to apply pressure. After a bit, you can start peeling the OHP slowly from a corner to see if it has taken. Voila!

The resulting image will have imperfections, etc but look great. A whole handmade book of them would be awesome, IMO...

The tricky part is getting the right amount of gel on the paper...

 

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• Apr 4, 2011

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Thanks for the information on this!

 

L Gebhardt

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• Apr 4, 2011

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I have printed some images many years ago on the OHP and it doesn't come close to slides in terms of blacks (dmax) or resolution (you won't get enough resolution to project them).