from print to digital print

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I have been printing about 50small prints a month for my daughter , but they are just negative scans from the lab she gets her film developed from and sends me the files. i print with a canon pro10s . have ben printing professionally with it for 5 years now. up to A3+

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Do you make the prints yourself with an enlarger on traditional photographic printing paper?

Even when I still used film, I always had the prints made commercially. These days, you can still send your digital images off to be printed commercially using traditional photographic paper, which has to be developed with chemicals in the usual way. I have had photobooks made using Fujicolor Crystal Archive paper and the quality has been very good.

Last time I checked, ink was a chemical :-)

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I think most people writing in a film forum are aware of how film and traditional photo paper are developed. The use of “chemicals” for traditional processes is often used as shorthand for toxic or environmentally hazardous (vs printers which presumably use unicorn breath rather than nasty “chemicals”).

I would love to get back to printing -- I have an enlarger, but what I don't have is space for a darkroom, not even one of those Ilford folding tent jobbies. I think I would still scan my negs for the ease of sharing, but I would really like to get back to printing... one of these days I will!

Aaron

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I think the smiley face showed he was being to serious.

While I truly loved doing B&W work in the darkroom, fibre based silver gel prints, I found that after mounting a large print behind glass for framing, the differences between inkjet and silver gel vanished. Showing people b&w piezography prints made using carbon K7 ink sets, people preferred the inkjet. So did I.

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