alt photo methods:transfer

Sub Codex wrote:

Hi Angela, you asked:

What exactly is the problem with printing
directly to a transparency with the C60?
Epson's site shows a print dialog in the C60's
driver that shows that it accepts transparency
film.

The C60 will print onto a transparency when the printer is hooked up to
a computer. I don't have a computer.

I use a WebTV Plus® "Internet Appliance" sometimes called an "Internet
Receiver". Proud owners of the device usually call it the "little black
box (llb)". It accesses the Internet through a phone line and the system
hooks up to a regular tv and uses its screen instead of a monitor.

It is easier and costs less than a computer. I wouldn't be able to be
online without it. But in some ways it lacks in power and efficiency.

Unfortunately my "llb" and printer, as serviced by msntv (formerly
webtv),
won't print onto a transparency.

Oh, so you can't access the print driver at all then. Wow, how weird. I
think you'll have bigger problems than that though if you were planning
on doing anything terribly sophisticated. I don't have any idea how
you're obtaining your source image, it needs to be substantially larger
than anything that you'll find on the web. The very minimum you could
get away with would be 100ppi, which means for an 8x10 output, the
source image needs to be 800 x 1,000 pixels. For a decent print, you
need at least twice that, 1600 x 2,000 pixels. To do a cyanotype, the
image needs to be greyscale and then inverted (creating a negative). In
order to do something like a tempratype with three process colors, you
need an image editor that will split to CMY or CMYK, resulting in
separate images, one for each color channel. The editor also needs to be
able to place registration marks on each printout. Paint Shop Pro,
PhotoPaint and PhotoShop can all do this, but you have to have a hard
drive to install it on.


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Angela M. Cable
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