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by Mike McNamee Published 01/04/2010
much improvement when we varnished the audit prints. We did, however, make an assessment of resolution of each canvas and this is included as a graph.
Overall then the canvas range covers many possible printing requirements with a wide variation in both surface and properties.
How to choose?
By now we have almost certainly baffled you with so many choices that you are paralysed with indecision. The only way out is to buy a test pack and find your feet with some careful testing. Make it count! Keep notes of what you test and how you test it; two months down the line you will have forgotten whether a print was made on one smooth art surface or another and will also have mixed the boxes up as well! Write notes on your prints and be sure to include the details of the settings, it takes a little time but saves agonising later. As we have shown with these audit tests the PermaJet profiles are excellent and so you shouldhave little trouble making a good test print which can spring-board you towards trying larger prints.
Digital Transfer Media
This is a specialised media which is transparent but is coated with an ink-receptive layer. The enthusiasts have found all sorts of uses for it, often by using it as an intermediate stage in 'ancient' or 'alternative' processes which require the use of a contact-printable, large-size negative or positive. The PermaJet Digital Film has been tested and used extensively by Tim Rudman in the making of many digital negatives. Tim is well known for several books on black and white printing, lith printing and toning processes. The processes that maybe tried are typified by cyanotype, salt printing and gum bichromate but Mike Ware, a well-known expert on the subject has excellent reference material at ww.mikeware.demon.co.uk.
A material such as this does not fit into our normal testing routines and there are few professionals working in the field; the progress is, therefore, generally driven by enthusiasts.
However, we should not lose sight of the fact that Irving Penn's hand-made platinum prints sell for colossal amounts of money at auction - there may be hope for our grandchildren yet!
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