Digital Printing

[Pieter12]

....don't forget dye transfer prints

Not possible any more.

 

[GregY]

Not possible any more.

Yes.... but they still exist.... was the point i was making. To ignore them is to ignore the modern history of colour print making.

 

[koraks]

Not possible any more.

Possible - sure. Feasible - not really for most of us.

Bettina Haneke – Dye Transfer Atelier

Atelier für Dye Transfer

www.bettinahaneke.com

There's a few more, but these people currently seem best positioned to produce in a commercially viable way (within this tiny niche)

The whole horse of "we don't know how archival X or Y is" has been beaten to death. There's data out there and at the same time, the arguments against its validity and reliability are inherent to the methodology. So that's one puzzle we're never going to solve - not even in 40 years' time. I see no progress in that discussion even though it has popped up here several times. Then there's the question for how many of us long-term stability (decades, centuries) of a print is really a pertinent issue.

Let personal choices be just that. What I find interesting about them is to hear about personal motives. What I find decidedly less interesting and more iffy are attempts to make universal claims about what's inherently better in one way or another. I don't think it works that way.

 

[Don_ih]

@cliveh how many digital prints will you be making or getting made? What are they for?

I'd like a good inkjet printer but can't justify it - I wouldn't use it enough.

 

[cliveh]

@cliveh how many digital prints will you be making or getting made? What are they for?

I'd like a good inkjet printer but can't justify it - I wouldn't use it enough.

I wasn't thinking about making any digital prints myself, but paying a printer to do it for me should I find something I want to print.

 

[RalphLambrecht]

Digital printing is now so good that I think it surpasses what can be achieved in a darkroom. For that reason I intend to use the physical integrity of film, but scan and print through digital. Others may not agree, but I am a taker and have little interest in darkroom printing.

Have fun in your new rabbit hole. I tried, and now my Epson is in the dumpster, and I'm back in the darkroom several thousand dollars poorer.

 

[Chan Tran]

Have fun in your new rabbit hole. I tried, and now my Epson is in the dumpster, and I'm back in the darkroom several thousand dollars poorer.

Did you do quite a bit of printing using digital negative? The reverse of what the OP wanted to do? But for me I keep analog analog, digital digital neither is better or worse I keep them in their own space.

 

[Don_ih]

I wasn't thinking about making any digital prints myself, but paying a printer to do it for me should I find something I want to print.

That's a sensible approach, since a good printer is expensive and really needs to be used pretty regularly. You'll likely also get better quality that way.