I have Pictorico high gloss white film (the box with the nautilus ). I bought it some time ago to learn a bit about digi neg making, but the printer I had at the time frustrated me with banding, etc, so I put it away. Now with printing problems solved, I have managed to set up and print a couple of nice looking negs, one is black only, and the other has come color (orange). I'm starting with cyanotype while I dial in my understanding of curves, color densities, etc.
So I went to print these negs on cyanotype in my Nuarc 26 1k to evaluate my efforts, and even after baking it for 2000 units I have a bit of a latent image, but still no usable exposure. Even border areas with no ink (so just the Pictorico) don't really show a lot of exposure. For comparison my normal PMK negs prints on this machine with usually about 600-800 units, and they are fairly dense negs. Is Pictorico really that dense to UV? Do I have the wrong stuff? Am I missing something? If it really is that dense I guess I will have to re-calibrate my integrator so I don't have to re-strike the machine six times.
So I went to print these negs on cyanotype in my Nuarc 26 1k to evaluate my efforts, and even after baking it for 2000 units I have a bit of a latent image, but still no usable exposure. Even border areas with no ink (so just the Pictorico) don't really show a lot of exposure. For comparison my normal PMK negs prints on this machine with usually about 600-800 units, and they are fairly dense negs. Is Pictorico really that dense to UV? Do I have the wrong stuff? Am I missing something? If it really is that dense I guess I will have to re-calibrate my integrator so I don't have to re-strike the machine six times.
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