Paper Negative Material Question

All

There is a recent Gum Bichromate article by Peter Blackburn on the Alternative Photography web site. In the article, Peter says he is printing out paper negatives using Bienfang Graphics 360 100% Rag Transluent Marker Paper and a Konica -Minolta printer.

Does anyone know if this Bienfang Graphics Transluent Marker Paper paper will work on Epson Printers such as the 2200?

Thanks!!

Bruce

Bruce...you'd have to figure out which settings to use for it, since it's a superthin tracing paper-like substrate. I use it for pt/pd and argyrotype printing.

I tried to print on it once with my 3800 but it was a mess. I know it probably can be done, but I didn't spend the time to make it work...

Also, Golden makes a clear digital ground that you can brush on almost any porous material in order to make it inkjet printable...in case that helps.

BruceRC said:

All

There is a recent Gum Bichromate article by Peter Blackburn on the Alternative Photography web site. In the article, Peter says he is printing out paper negatives using Bienfang Graphics 360 100% Rag Transluent Marker Paper and a Konica -Minolta printer.

Does anyone know if this Bienfang Graphics Transluent Marker Paper paper will work on Epson Printers such as the 2200?

Thanks!!

Bruce

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Yes it will but I'm surprised that it is transparent enough to allow UV light to past readily. I've not measured the UV log density on my xRite 361 densitometer but my past experiments using Clearprint vellum for digital inkjet negatives failed miserably.

My interest in using the CPV was for the large dot gain of the inkjet neg for alt process printing including but after a 2 hour exposure on cyanotype coated paper I had virtually no image. Maybe I'm missing something with the Bienfang.

Don Bryant

This thread's a few months old, but I found that the Enhanced Matte Neutral profile in QTR will work quite well on Bienfang 360 Translucent Marker paper. I just printed a step wedge that looks great, have not calibrated it, but shows a lot of promise.

I'm not saying it would make great negative material, since I havent tried that myself, but some prints may look absolutely beautiful on this paper. It was a favorite of many platinum printers and it is inexpensive...

Interesting information about the Bienfang 360 for inkjet prints. I'll have to take a look at it.

Don

Thin paper is excellent (cheap) material for gum printing, oiled or non-oiled. Agree about Cyanotype; it's the slowest/least sensitive alt. process I regularly practice. On the other hand gum is pretty sensitive and the emulsion formulation/characteristic is pretty flexible. My usual gum exposure time with non-oiled thin paper negative under a bank of UVBL tubes was something around 6 minutes... (10% ammonium dichromate 1:1 gum/pigment) It works fine enough - if you don't need high resolution/sharpness... (Not that you can't get nice results; for instance see this: Dead Link Removed -> that's a 600dpi scan showing approx. 3x2" area of a tricolor gum print made with paper negatives...)