The Black and White Studies: Printing Options

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North Rim
Canyon de Chelly National Monument, AZ
January, 24, 2006

The State of the Printing Union

The Print	The Camera/Negative/File
Contact printing with silver or alternative chemicals (Bostick and Sullivan)	Ultra-large format camera 8x10 or larger with BW negative film
Contact printing with silver or alternative chemicals	A digital negative created with Photoshop/inkjet printing on transparency from either a native digital camera capture or from a scanned negative from 4x5, medium format, or 35mm camera
Traditional silver printing with enlarger (Analog Photography Users Group)	Most likely a traditional BW negative
Inkjet print with dedicated BW inks (Peizography BW)	Either a digital camera file or negative/transparency scanned and enhanced with Photoshop
Inkjet print with standard inks and high-end RIP (Imageprint RIP)	Either digital camera file or negative/transparency scanned and enhanced with Photoshop
Durst Epsilon LED printer on Fuji Crystal Archive Paper (Photoproduction Services in South Charleston, WV)	Either digital camera file or negative/transparency scanned and enhanced with Photoshop