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Where to buy a 5x7 contact printer for glass plates?

mooseontheloose

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I recently did a wet plate workshop, producing both 5x7 tintypes and wet plates. I don't know if this is something that I will ever be able to get into here in Japan but regardless, I'd like to get myself a 5x7 contact printer so I can make some darkroom prints of the glass plates. However, I seem to have a hard time sourcing them. There are some vintage ones on ebay, but they are pretty pricey (although I guess if I never do wet plate again I could use it as a frame). It seems to me I had a link to a store that sold these types of contact printers, but I can no longer find the link (or maybe it's all my head). Either way, looking for suggestions about getting one, outside of making one myself.
 

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You really only need a contact frame for alternative processes where you open part of the back to check exposure, thinking Albumen prints and similar which have no development. Just use a sheet of glass, I have a pice of 1/4" thick glass somewhere that I used to use for contact prints, it got a bit scratched but my glass supplier could cut me a new one from his scrap pile

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Do you need glass if you are using glass plates?
You cant just use a normal picture frame with a few clamps? Thats all I do. If I need to check I just carefully tape the bottom of the negative to the paper.