One word diagnosis, as though “he died of temperature” offers a pathway to knowledge of medicine. Porous, like crossover, isn’t enough of an answer. It settles the matter; it also stops inquiry into what is the actual mechanism, the controllable ones.
alecrmyers [I don't recognize the paper I'm using as specifically being microporous. (his question about “pinholes” {which are likely fisheyes}
It is. Inkjet papers need to soak up ink, so a plain PE layer without any holes in it wouldn't work. The ink would puddle and smear.][first answer that comes to mind]
[my answer]inkjet receivers can be made using microporous coating, swellable polymer coating, matte coated. Canon, HP and Kodak provide swellable polymer and microporous coated. Epson is most often microporous. Kodak has commercialized a wider range of coating methods.[this was as of 2002]
I am resisting showing the patents — think of it as an exercise for the interested. ============= Ortho — true color … not all ortho films are the same… they don’t produce the same image look; range, response to scene color and brightness.
when people arrive with more foundation than the reviewer, the advice may be less useful, even a distractor. worth saying that the high posters frequently are less depth than the questioner, the seeker. google brings em to the slaughter house -- a matter of ez-pass, aka, path dependency.
RC remains disliked by the freezer set, even as they use RA4 paper, forgetting that resin coating was arrived as a color print paper. Fiber paper left color printing, being replaced fully in less than 2 years. Oh, color paper, RC paper can be mounted to paper, cloth, metal, plastic... even concrete.. depends on how much you know, which depends upon how you imagine. [Resin-coated materials were introduced for colour emulsions in 1968 and black-and-white emulsions approximately four years later.]
remember ctein rhymes with k-tel ======= [measurable absolute in terms of where a colour cast/ colour crossover-- one echo after another] [due to the nature of color paper, it also affects color balance and crossover (since highlights are affected comparatively strongly- -- the originator of neu-meaning. ] missing speeds of layers ... re safelight as source of fog...
[color layer by speed; by contrast; by filtering effect.]
idea spread across fora... the argument flips when HE is losing. from chemistry to alchemy depending upon his stature in the thread.
the drewly flop, like a broken screen at a door store.
as a thread gains technical input, THEY must switch. now, they are an artist basing an opinion on ... that other stuff, even thogh they remain an invisible actor in a forgotten trubutary of exhibition-collector world.
while during the eclipse, they ask: " what type of loupe is she using" -- referring to a bts video
"film that realizes a connection between natural colors and smooth gradation" [translation brings scoff]
thick was coating mode slot coater / draw coating / web / curtain coating (or slot die coating)
Coatings can be horizontal or vertical, it is the nature of the head end or "hopper" that determines the "modernity" of a coater as follows:
- Trough coater - Trough with doctor blade or air knife - Extrusion hopper - Slide hopper - Curtain coater
https://patents.google.com/patent/US2901770A/en https://patents.google.com/patent/US3303816A/en US2681294A Method of coating strip material
2001: Dye Transfer has become a lost process. Something talked about, mostly by those who never made one.
>> Apr 19, 2001 –Anyone out there interested in a Durst 8×10 with all the extra’s for Dye Transfer? Carriers, Condit stuff, vacuum easel, 403 color head and more. >> Jan 16, 2002 All my stuff has been sitting … anyone want anything? Rollers, granite tables, trays ??? 2 rolls 10 feet by 40 inch Kodak F paper. about 100 sheets Surface F 20×24 about 18 gallons Cyan, Magenta, Yellow dyes. All for free, just make it easy for me to ship. I’d like to able to drop at Mail Boxes Etc. and have you pay for shipping.
Then, there are those that make the dime they need. Selling to cover their mistakes, missteps. Greed is never a gift.
>> ctein “comment about giving “the custom in the dye transfer…
away… then, he sells… and, at last, he must give away. A needy greedy cycle. From the Herdy Gerdy Man
advice he didn’t take until many years after he couldn’t sell it.
advice, like old equipment, isn’t worth as much as the seller thinks
I keep pretty good track of who is doing DT, because I still get inquiries.
[ctein ] 2023…
[2023] From the large membership group, some collected remarks concerning volume of work, as well as film+developers in use for mask & separations.
[J1] 10-15 for clients. Delta 100.
[A2] 8 to 10, for myself. using expired Pan Masking. LPD4 in D-8, and Kodalith A&B. DK-50 1:3 3min at 78F rotary processor.
[R3] T-Max 100 & HC-110.
Meanwhile, back in the fifties: ads for labs, and a new film, a new style of emulsion. All these are gone; Kodak won, for awhile. And along came Fuji, who seemed, for awhile, to be the winner. An along came the worldwide HealtQuake. Fuji has moved to that great big ocean. Kodak coats 35mm for the masses, returning to their origin story. We push film; you push buttons.
Dye Transfer Materials price list.
A group can’t live if it can’t get passed its origins. That is why OIC began. They are the largest group engaged in making DT/IP prints.
[there will be more posted. this post will grow]
\\ updated post on dye transfer paper[apr 2024] summary: don’t buy paper unless you have all other items, even chems. If you must make conditioner, why not also make mordant, which means you can use fixed out BW paper from Foma, Ilford, or … old eBay.
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