Waxed Negatives

[Richard Rodgers]

In Burkholder's - Making Digital Negatives for Contact Printing - He writes
about waxing ink jet negatives for contact printing. How do you do this? If an
when you do this waxing, how do you protect the paper (on which you are going
to print) from this wax?
Thanks for you help,
Richard Rodgers

[Ken Hart]

"Richard Rodgers" <fot...@aol.com> wrote in message
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I'm not familiar with this book, but I recently had occasion to use a
digital neg. Customer brought me an old photo the needs serious retouch
work. I scanned it, did the retouch, inverted it (made it a negative) and
printed it onto transparency film, (transparency film as available at the
office supply store for use on overhead projectors) then contact printed
that. Final result was excellant. Bad news is that the transparency film has
already visibly faded, in just a couple weeks.

--
Ken Hart
kwh...@aec.nu

[photo...@rlett.fsnet.co.uk]

I don't know the book or article you refer to but I think I know the
principle. In fact it stems from William Henry Fox Talbot's early
experiments with photography, after making his exposures onto paper
negatives he waxed the paper to make it translucent, allowing light to pass
through it more easily for contact printing. I would imagine simply rubbing
a candle on the reverse side of the paper would do the job. To get the idea
try dropping oil or grease on to a bit of paper. I would think that they
recommend wax as it would not transfer to the receiving sheet of
photographic paper, forming a barrier that the developer cant reach.
I think I'll have a go at this.
--
A photograph is not only an image (as a painting is an image), an
interpretation of the real; it is also a trace, something directly
stencilled off the real, like a footprint or a death mask.
Susan Sontag.
See my images here: http://www.rlett.fsnet.co.uk

[photo...@rlett.fsnet.co.uk]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Darryl Gage" <dg...@netsync.net>
To: <photo...@rlett.fsnet.co.uk>
Sent: Wednesday, August 23, 2000 10:11 PM
Subject: Re: Waxed Negatives

> If I remember correctly, you need some beeswax and an iron. You draw the
> paper between the iron and the beeswax to coat the paper making it
> translucent. And the iron has to be hot enough so that you can barely
stand
> it without burning your hand. Haven't tried it myself, yet though.
>
Yes or some form of liquefied wax may do the job.