Digital BW, The Print

Hi all,

I've been printing now for a couple of months using the VM set on my 12_90 
(not 80). I've been using Paul's curves for the 1280 and at most altering 
the magenta +/- up to 10%, thats it. I just read, and actually Nij mentioned 
it to me earlier that the 1280 is different to the 1290 and the curves may 
have problems. Can someone tell me how they are different and suggest what I 
might need to alter? I do get occasional posterisation in the darker tones 
on some prints and there is also a pretty big shift towards cold/warm in the 
mids that is pretty noticeable in step wedges. Having never seen anyone 
elses prints it's hard to know if the prints can be improved. I tried a 
sample pack of paper and much against popular wisdom on the list found that 
the Somerset Velvet Enhanced printed terribly (bad posterisation) and 
blocked up all the midtones. William Turner printed very well, as did 
Torchon & Photorag. I probably would have gone for Photorag as it seemed the 
most capable of broad tone reproduction, but I prefered the texture of the 
other two papers and they didn't seem to lag too far behind on tonal 
reproduction. I did head alignments for each paper btw.

Any 1290 owners out there with modified curves they'd like to share? <G> :)

Cheers,
Neil - in MIS-less UK (hint hint!)

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