Monday 20 May 2013

Digital Transfer Film: Make digital negatives!


Beytan Erkmen has some Digital transfer film (for internegative/positive inkjet) available for use in G32. The film comes in A3 but will be available in smaller sizes  to keep test costs down. Student charges will be slightly more than Lustre paper , £2 per A4 and £4 per A3 sheet.




Beytan says: " I will attempt to profile the paper from digital inkjet output through the RA-4 printer to enable students to contact print DSLR capture or scans to C-type paper. I have spoken to Abbs and we will be moving the print and negative densitometer into G32 to allow students to understand how to profile the digital negative densities to match the Fujichrome crystal archive colour paper or Monochrome.
I will also be asking Peter Renn for his advice into using the digital transfer film with the alternative process workshops.
All being well, this should provide new opportunities for students to bridge the digital capture/output resources with traditional wet processes and making students more aware of the possibilities to print manipulated or constructed images onto C-type, monochrome and non-silver historic print processes."
 I've not had an opportunity to test the new material (it's ordered through UCA and comes without branding but it's manufactured by Permajet. see http://www.graphicdesignsupplies.co.uk/digital-fine-art-media-permajet-fine-art-media-permajet-traditional-baryta-digital-transfer-film-165-permajet-digital-transfer-film-165-sheets-p-5216.html

I will be making test negs for alternative processes as soon as possible, starting with Argyrotype,  Cyanotype and Liquid Light.   We will, of course make all our findings public here so you can select suitable print profiles and contrast ranges for your intended use.

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