inkjet print to silver halide print - paper negative

hey all,

quick question, I know you can make a paper negative in the darkroom using a print and another sheet of photo paper, is it possible to take a inkjet digital print and do the same? place the digital inkjet print emulation to silver halide emulation and then expose it under an enlarger and then develop the silver print from that?

thanks, Scott Hunnicutt
photo student

schunn99 said:

hey all,

quick question, I know you can make a paper negative in the darkroom using a print and another sheet of photo paper, is it possible to take a inkjet digital print and do the same? place the digital inkjet print emulation to silver halide emulation and then expose it under an enlarger and then develop the silver print from that?

thanks, Scott Hunnicutt
photo student

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Yes Scott you can do that with inkjet paper. Ive done it. Glossy paper works best.

Don Bryant

don, did you invert the image in PS or did you leave the image alone, print it to make a negative and then print a (+) from the resulting negative?

schunn99 said:

don, did you invert the image in PS or did you leave the image alone, print it to make a negative and then print a (+) from the resulting negative?

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You do everything as you would if you were making a digital negative from a transparent substrate such as Pictorico OHP. So yes you invert the image.

Don

When we went through our last hiring cycle at Penn State one of the candidates did this for his work. He printed 10' negatives on paper, then contact printed them to traditional b+w material. Certainly an economical way to get a negative that big.

Ah nice to hear from my Alma Mater, how goes it in happy valley?

Let me refer you to this thread; you can inkjet directly onto photo paper (in the dark!), expose, clear the ink, and voila. I am still fine-tuning this process and trying various ink/solvent combinations. Bottom line: no internegative required, and I am looking forward with great anticipation to the day when I can kiss pictorico goodbye.

keithwms said:

Ah nice to hear from my Alma Mater, how goes it in happy valley?

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It goes quite well. We have just moved to new facilities for all of our digital areas, purchased 6 new 4880's, and the faculty is considering adding wet plate collodion to the curriculum. My own research has been in printing to wet plate from film and digital, with particular thrust in the direction of getting full-tone prints on clear glass. Quite exciting, to say the least.

keithwms said:

Let me refer you to this thread; you can inkjet directly onto photo paper (in the dark!), expose, clear the ink, and voila. I am still fine-tuning this process and trying various ink/solvent combinations. Bottom line: no internegative required, and I am looking forward with great anticipation to the day when I can kiss pictorico goodbye.

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This looks quite interesting - I have added a post about one of our thoughts, which was to convert a film recorder into a digital enlarger (you'd have to add a shutter and enlarging lens). I currently own two, but don't have the software to drive either. I'm hoping that if I make enough money this summer I'll be able to purchase the new version of rasterplus so I can use either my polaroid 8000 or my opal plus to try it.