Does anyone have tips for how to physically print astrophotography? I have an Epson 8550 and have tested a few types of papers from Red River company but I haven’t found a great configuration yet. Getting the stars to contrast well is haaaard 😅 🔭 #astrophotography - ThreadSky

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kaylyn.bsky.social • 41 days ago

Does anyone have tips for how to physically print astrophotography? I have an Epson 8550 and have tested a few types of papers from Red River company but I haven’t found a great configuration yet.

Getting the stars to contrast well is haaaard 😅

🔭 #astrophotography

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mrjfuk.bsky.social•41 days ago

I found best was to print on Duratrans (or similar, like slide film) and put into a back-lit frame! You probably have to send the image elsewhere for printing.

kaylyn.bsky.social•41 days ago

Wow that looks incredible!! I’m enchanted

sycosys.bsky.social•41 days ago

i got my Iris Nebula printed on canvas, it turned out pretty nice i think

kaylyn.bsky.social•41 days ago

That’s gorgeous! Did you use a service for it? I’m totally impressed (and technically I can try out canvas but sheesh that seems hard to do!)

sycosys.bsky.social•41 days ago

I am by no means a printing person but Im curious if the black ink is "bleeding" out the stars when printed on paper/photopaper and if maybe you can decrease the amount of black ink being dropped on the print your stars might show up?

kaylyn.bsky.social•40 days ago

That logically makes sense to me! I’ll do some research and give it a try and see what we get! 🙏

sycosys.bsky.social•40 days ago

good luck!

sycosys.bsky.social•41 days ago

thanks, I used someone like https://www.canvasworld.com they are always running deals on prints

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