It has three main areas: desk for scanning and printing, printmaking desk and canvas stretching table.

My new “small” printer is 17″ Epson 4900 sits on a stand built just for “him” alone. Old Epson 2400 is hiding below, I’m planning to convert it to use with Piezography Carbon inks. Epson 4990 scanner to scan 4×5 and 8×10 negatives and Nikon 4000ED for 35mm slides. The monitor is quite small but this just a “satellite” digital darkroom station, my main 12TB-24GB-i7-3 monitors computer muscle is in my upstairs office.

From left to right: canvas and paper rolls storage, dry mounting press, UV light source for contact printing, light box, print drying rack, print coating table, prints storage and a fridge full of film.

UV light source with all 16 black lights in action.

My workhourse 44″ HP Z3100 printer with built-in spectrophotomer. And canvas stretching machine with air compressor on a table which is folded for now. Usually it sits in a center of the room.

Well, the construction phase is over. It is time to produce some new images and prints.

But looking at the original image I can’t help but see it in through Photoshop lens: I see it as a RAW file which needs to be processed, I see it as a negative which needs to be printed. It is the same feeling when try to look outside through the dirty window: you do want to clean it to sparkle and enjoy the view. I could not resist to make some quick adjustments to the original file – see before and after below.

This and other images you can find in Library of Congress are in public domain and there no restrictions on publication and other forms of distribution.

After:

Before:

Now when the wet side (room) is finished I can apply my construction “momentum” to design and build the dry side (room): finish UV light source, build print dryer, print coating desk, computer desk and stands for assortment of Epson prints I have.