a old stock roll of dye transfer paper was sold on eBay. congrats to both the buyer and seller.
a good price for the seller. good for the buyer too, if…
If the buyer knows how to use this; if they have conditioner and Kodak dyes, they are set to go. If they don’t have those things, they can mix both, if they know how.
I’m going to assume they do know how — I don’t know who bought it, nor do I know the seller. I’ve checked with the bakers and picklers in both printing groups — no one raises a hand. Those at OIC said they’d made an offer which was rejected. So it goes.
This paper is the mordanted type — two mordants. They are designed to control the Kodak Dyes, although the DuPont alternate set works just fine’ish. Meaning, the Greens will be too yellow. I guess that’s better than being orange’ish — making prints seem as though they were from ‘mixed’ window-light.
Oh, lets hope that whoever had this for so long stored it not on the flat. Oh, that curve you see, that is so the paper can feed into the very olden days Omega dispenser that Treck sold.
an overnight. Not every error is the same error; not every color error is a crossover. Most aren’t.
separations. telling theory from experience. the cowboy from the hat
pigment diameters: a pigment isn’t a colorant of a fixed size. It doesn’t have to “fail to fit thru those tiny nozzles” in a jet printer to be a pigment. That test is a failure to thrive in a learning world.
[the green curve on the right is crossing over the blue curve] If it could be shifted to the right…
Structural pigments don’t have color.
“A dye is a colorant which is molecularly dispersed or solvated by a carrier. The carrier can be a liquid or a solid at room temperature. A commonly used carrier is water or a mixture of water and organic co-solvents. Each individual dye molecule is surrounded by molecules of the carrier. In dye-based inks, no particles are observable under the microscope.”
“Pigments are colored, black, white or fluorescent particulate organic or inorganic solids which usually are insoluble in, and essentially physically and chemically unaffected by, the vehicle or substrate in which they are incorporated. They alter appearance by selective absorption and/or by scattering of light. Pigments are usually dispersed in vehicles or substrates for application, as for instance in the manufacture or inks, paints, plastics or other polymeric materials. Pigments retain a crystal or particulate structure throughout the coloration process.” –CPMA – Color Pigment Manufacturers Association, Inc.
not a crossover. most of the green horns would think it was. this gif was made from two separate, seemingly balanced prints. at least the grey steps were correct.
The problem with pigment, carbon printers’ results are: Undercolor. undercolor — CMY have degraded, overlapped out of balance. UCR mask reduces these colors so that the K will be image content. Exposure controls amount removed. Soup the mask to a contrast that reduces in the shadow of the separation negatives.
mask is option in best match colorant sets.
the essential is matrix, dye, blank
masking is an aid to holding the Chrome for the paper
he was good at transferring information without killing imagination
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