RE: silver prints from digital files

I have made some lightjet prints and find them quite beautiful. These are
certainly what many nature photographers are using for color output (for
example Galen Rowell http://www.mountainlight.com/gallery.html and Bill
Atkinson www.billatkinson.com/CatalogIndex.html ) Essentially the lightjet
printer (www.cymbolic.com/products/lightjet5000.html) is a device that takes
a digital file and uses lasers to paint the image onto photographic paper,
making basically a digital enlarger. The printer is quite expensive and is
only available at service beaurus like www.calypsoinc.com . Many people
think the printer is ok but not stunning for BW printing it cannot resolve
from 90% black to 100%. On the upside, if your photos have little info in
that range, it works well. In addition it has the ability to print images
upto 48 x 96.

Mark
www.interwalk.com/gallery.htm

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Subject: [pinhole-discussion] silver prints from digital files

 Hello,
> Hopefully this is helpful, but it must be humbly stated that
> I know NOTHING about this process-- other than I recently attended a
critique/seminar given by a photographer, Jean Miele, who uses a process
called "lightjet" for outputs of his digital files to light-sensitive
papers. There is a special "printer" that exposes the files to a
traditional photographic paper or film using laser beams. the film or paper
is then processed using traditional photo chemistry. I am not sure if this
is a silver based process. Mr Miele's work is entirely black and white, but
some of the websites mentioned that the process uses fuji crystal archive
paper. A google search for "lightjet" turned up many leads if you have the
time to explore further. The prints can be made extremely large. It sounds
like an offshoot of the graphic arts and sign industry that has found a
niche with fine arts photography. I have a few pinhole images that I
thought would look great enlarged to 5 ft square and printed with this
process but it is very expensive.
> good luck,
> Gina Bellando

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Received on Mon Nov 4 23:39:06 2002