Digital BW, The Print

Is there a reason you're not using QtRip?

On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 8:27 AM, jcphoto52 <jacques.caron@...>wrote:

> I'm still quite new the the whole process of EB6 with an Epson 1430.
>
> I'm partly satisfied with the results. I made many test with images that I
> printed in a darkroom so I can compare. Up to now, I'm very close.
>
> For each print, I added a 21 steps greyscale and for easier evaluation I
> made five bigger squares in PhotoShop that I filled with (0-0-0, 5-5-5 and
> so on) blacks; I added three squares (250-250-250,245-245-245 and
> 240-240-240).
>
> On the print, the lighter squares are perfect but the black ones are mushy
> and difficult to evaluate. Seems that from 0-0-0 to 25-25-25 I get the same
> black or almost.
>
> Is there a way, with the Epson driver (I'm on Red River Polar Matte paper)
> to compensate so I can have a little bit more separation in the blacks?
>
> I know that this is probably incomplete or not clear but if it is asked,
> I'll try my best to feed in the missing info.
>
> Many thanks
>
>
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