Digital BW, The Print

Mark,
If you have a look at the histogram for your print using the FS inks 
you will see that you have no full blacks, a huge gap and "blown 
out" highlights. 

Instead of converting from duotone, why not use the Paul Roake 
workflow from your original RGB? It is pretty simple. The beauty of 
the FS inks is there ability to show lots of shadow detail, so I 
would definately work on that. I try to get a quite a few full black 
areas on my prints. 

The usual method of converting to greyscale is to use the mixer 
method, have a look around and you should find lots of references to 
doing this. 

Make sure that your printer is firing on all nozzles with a head 
check.

I stuggled for years with a wet darkroom and finally gave up. What I 
can do with PhotoShop and Quad inks I could never have done with the 
wet darkroom. I wonder if Ansel would have stuck with the wet if he 
had photoshop available to him? I would love to get a scan of one of 
his negs to see what kind of print I could get! 

If you would like to email me a copy of your orginal file, I will 
see what I can do if you like.

I hope that I have been of some help.

Barry

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., "markjamesfisher" 
<markjamesfisher@y...> wrote:
> I've done a fair amount of wet darkroom work and am starting my 
foray
> into the digital side.  I was dissapointed with using color inks 
and
> duotoning on my Epson 870(seemed very difficult to get consistant
> results).  I am now trying the Full Spectrum Inks from MIS -- 
trying
> but not succeeding!  
> 
> I have two images posted at:
> 
> http://www.photo.net/photodb/folder?folder_id=188255
> 
> 
> One image is as seen on screen and one is the printed image.  The
> image was in duotone and converted to to RBG.  I created a transfer
> function per the Nevins method described on the MIS website and
> applied that before printing on Epson Archival Matte.
> 
> I imagine the is a simple thing to fix, but I tried to search the
> archive without much luck.  I am anxious to get out of the 
darkroom,
> but it seems I have a lot to learn.
> 
> Thanks -- Mark