Digital BW, The Print

Scott,

No need to go back to the camera exposure or to development. 
Negatives I made decades ago for silver printing work just fine with 
inkjet.

Keep working with the curves. Try the John Woolf workflow. You might 
want to consider buying Piezo for $335 but stay with the FS inks you 
already have.

Martin Wesley



--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., "smichener" 
<smichener@y...> wrote:
> Hi all,
>     I'm a new comer to digital black and white, so I hope this 
isn't 
> a ridiculus question.
>     I'm using Jim Nevins curves with FS MIS inks in an 1160.  I 
> continue to have problems with dark images.  After the curve is 
> applied the images print very dark.  If I lighten the image with 
> brightness, contrast or a tonality adjustment, it results in a flat 
> image with blending of the grays, little contrast and a very 
digital 
> look.
>     I did a gray scale stepwedge and created my own curve which was 
> not perfect, but close.  This brought back contrast and more detail 
> to my images, but they still print very dark.
>     Do I need to go all the way back to the camera and increase my 
> exposure or is there a nice way to lighten these images up and keep 
> detail and contrast? 
>                    Thanks all,
>                            Scott Michener