My name is Stephen, I have been interested in black and white photography since the late 1970s, using mostly 35mm but occasionally have used medium format. Over the years I have only had a very makeshift dark room in the various places I have lived that mostly have had to be set up and then dismantled, a process that always drove me up the wall because it is so wasteful of time. I took the plunge into a personal computer a few years ago and discovered the answer to all my printing problems - the scanner and the inkjet printer!!!
I use the Cone Tech Pietzography system, the pigment inks, as I understand it, are almost as permanent as an archivally processed print. I have found that fantastic A3 prints are possible from 35mm and almost unbelievably good prints from medium format, different and much better than any traditional print I ever did with the exception of a series of lith prints (for anyone who is unfamiliar with this process it involves putting a much over exposed paper like Art Classic into lith developer and snatching out when it reaches a stage that you judge to be right).
I am totally committed to using film which I develope by the two bath method D23 followed by Kodalk.
I shall end here as this is long and the message page is behaving strangely.
Stephen.
I use the Cone Tech Pietzography system, the pigment inks, as I understand it, are almost as permanent as an archivally processed print. I have found that fantastic A3 prints are possible from 35mm and almost unbelievably good prints from medium format, different and much better than any traditional print I ever did with the exception of a series of lith prints (for anyone who is unfamiliar with this process it involves putting a much over exposed paper like Art Classic into lith developer and snatching out when it reaches a stage that you judge to be right).
I am totally committed to using film which I develope by the two bath method D23 followed by Kodalk.
I shall end here as this is long and the message page is behaving strangely.
Stephen.