Which Printers for digital negatives?

[photo8x10]

Hi,
I'm choosing a printer because I would like to make some digital negatives in OHP, I have some negatives that I want to print by contact(PL/PD carbon or AZO(my favourite)) I saw two epson printers R1800 and R2400.
I don't know nothing about digital negatives, and I haven't a printer now, I would like to know your opinions and your advise.
Which printers should I choose? What about these two printers?
Another little question What book I must read to learn to make digital negatives?

Best

Stefano Germi
Italy

[sanking]

Hi,
I'm choosing a printer because I would like to make some digital negatives in OHP, I have some negatives that I want to print by contact(PL/PD carbon or AZO(my favourite)) I saw two epson printers R1800 and R2400.
I don't know nothing about digital negatives, and I haven't a printer now, I would like to know your opinions and your advise.
Which printers should I choose? What about these two printers?
Another little question What book I must read to learn to make digital negatives?

Best

Stefano Germi
Italy

Stefano,

The Epson R2400 is a better printer for making digital negaives, IMHO. I tried the R1800 and found it marginal for this purpose.

I recommend Mark Nelson's Precision Digital Negatives as the best in-depth book on making digital negatives.

Sandy

[donbga]

Hi,
I'm choosing a printer because I would like to make some digital negatives in OHP, I have some negatives that I want to print by contact(PL/PD carbon or AZO(my favourite)) I saw two epson printers R1800 and R2400.
I don't know nothing about digital negatives, and I haven't a printer now, I would like to know your opinions and your advise.
Which printers should I choose? What about these two printers?
Another little question What book I must read to learn to make digital negatives?

Best

Stefano Germi
Italy

The rumor is that Epson will be announcing at Photokina a new desktop printer that may replace the 2400, so you may want to wait before making any decisions.

Other than that I agree with what Sandy. You may wish to read through this thread as well.

http://www.apug.org/forums/forum128/31208-epson-2200-vs-r2400-digital-negatives.html

[Joe Lipka]

I have and use the R2400. It works well in making digital negatives. You will also need (gasp!) photoshop or a similar digital imaging software and a scanner to digitize a print or negative.
I have used the Dan Burkholder method for creating digital negatives, but I have found that it does not work if you don't use the same printer make and model that Dan uses.
I think the Precision Digital Negative system adds some additional tests to make the application non printer specific.
I have several pages on my web site showing how I make digital negatives for platinum printing.

[Jordan]

I have several pages on my web site showing how I make digital negatives for platinum printing.

Joe, those pages are great. It's inspiring me to get out and try making more VDBs.

[juanito]

Hi stefano,

I'm making digital negatives with Dan Bourkholder's method using a cheap epson stylus photo R200. Can't go bigger than letter size but it gaves good digital negs. fot pt/pd (and silver).I'm using pictorico OHP.
if you check out my site http://www.planofocal.com.mx you can see the results.

Juanito

[photo8x10]

I'll wait after photokina to get my decision... If epson showed a new printer I would buy a new R2400 to a good price....
I saw your sites Joe and Juanito are great!

Best

Stefano Italy

[jimcollum]

i'm using an Epson 7600, which uses the same inkset as the 2200. Using the PDN system, i've been getting very smooth tones. I'm using the negatives to print Ziatypes (with a color pigment layer)

http://web1.omniblog.com/_smartsite/...ry&map_id=1237