Re: Digital Negs with Dye Sublimation

Dye-Subs are continuous tone. Perhaps that was its undoing.

~m

----- Original Message -----
From: "Katharine Thayer" <kthayer@pacifier.com>
To: <alt-photo-process-l@usask.ca>
Sent: Tuesday, April 25, 2006 9:13 PM
Subject: Re: Digital Negs with Dye Sublimation

> Some years back, I had a dye-sub printer. It was long enough ago
> that I don't remember the reason(s) why I didn't find it satisfactory
> for negatives, but at that time I found that I got better digital
> negatives for gum printing from a laser printer (using stochastic
> bitmap files) rather than from the dye-sub printer. (This was of
> course in the days before inkjet printers got good enough to make
> decent digital negatives).
> Katharine
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> On Apr 25, 2006, at 6:58 PM, Michael Koch-Schulte wrote:
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> > Has anyone attempted making digital negatives using a dye-
> > sublimation printer. Does it work? ~m
> >
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Received on Tue Apr 25 20:22:35 2006