How to get thin black line when printing.

[ConnectingTheDots]

I know you need to file down a carrier. But whenever I do that it always becomes a sloppy border. The lines are never even. I just want a nice thin line around my prints.. help??

 

[sanmich]

you get the thin straight lines by carefully adjusting your easel around the frame.

 

[ConnectingTheDots]

thanks, I'll give that a try..!

 

[telenous]

Leitz provided a dedicated full-frame (25x37 mm) negative carrier for use with their V35 enlarger. It was slightly bigger than the one supplied with the V35 enlarger as standard and allowed for printing of a thin black border around the image. Perhaps other enlarger manufacturers supplied something like this too?

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[LarsAC]

Easiest method I have seen is to create a card or board which is slightly smaller than the print area (and has rectangular corners of course). You put it into the easel lower / left corner and expose, then upper / right corner and expose.

If I recall correctly, the method is described in Tim Rudman's printing book.

Lars

 

[rlouzan]

+1 4-blade darkroom easel

you get the thin straight lines by carefully adjusting your easel around the frame.

 

[Travis L.]

You need a negative carrier with a slightly larger opening than the film frame.

 

[lukitas]

The Durst M670 enlarger was delivered with a set of two black chrome negative frames for the holder. One of them is the size of a slide frame, the other has a 25 X 37 opening. With glass on the other side I get a neat black border, you get to see light eating into the frame.

The part is called Durst SIVOMA

Cheers

 

[Fotohuis]

25x37mm carrier (Dunco has it also, even still in production) but the lines are never straight then. Or a Versamask easel with fixed frames where you can do very easily the inner part with a perfect straight line. Alternative the 4-blade easel with carefull adaptation.

 

[Dwig]

It takes both the filed out negative carrier and a high quality 4-blade easel.

The exposed image area will vary slightly from camera to camera and, if you are an RF user with a penchant for wide angle lenses, it will vary lens to lens on the same body. The only way to get a uniform neat thin line is to have a good bit of film outside of the image visible through the carrier and then mask it carefully at the easel.

 

[Sparrow]

... a 0.5mm Rotring pen and a straight edge would be easier

 

[Beemermark]

back when i used an enlarger I would file out the negative carrier to get what you want (ad it looks like you've already done). I was always sloppy and like the black edges looking a litte rough rather than perfectly straight like a border. If you want a straight black border use black tape on the print.

 

[drewbarb]

Forget the tape or pens, do it right: use a filed carrier, and then adjust the blades on the easel to create the crisp outside edge. Simple.