This is an old thread, I hope it's still viable. For those who are new, I deleted my original post because I wanted to re-word it, but before I was able to post a new one, Paul jumped in with an answer. He's too efficient! But he quoted my OP and you can see how this thread got started. Anyway, the reason I didn't follow up on his suggestions was because somehow the solarization got cleared up. But now it's back, and I tried the suggestions in the second paragraph. Here's what I got: percent Calibration Mode 21 step file 0 255 255 5 150 144 10 102 98 15 67 67 20 62 69 25 45 44 30 33 37 35 37 35 40 35 35 45 35 32 After that, they both level off and stay in the mid to low 30's all the way to black. Looks pretty good to my unpracticed eye. It was hard to get a definite reading in each patch, I tried to put the eye dropper in the middle of each one. But throughout each patch there was quite a spread. If these figures are ok, here's a couple of other things I've noticed: 1) If I choose the BO driver, I get no solarization, but the the black is not really as punchy as with my old 3MK-1800 setup. I certainly do like the 1400 better than my clog-prone 1800. 2) This may be more significant: the prints that are solarized come from scans of b/w negatives, both 35mm and 6x6. Prints from b/w conversion from a digital color file are ok. Granted, I've not done a lot of printing from scanned b/w negs lately, perhaps not enough to be significant. But still, maybe I'm scanning my b/w negs incorrectly. I'm using an Epson 4490. I have Color Management turned off. Thanks all, Paul
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Re: [Digital BW] solarized print
2014-10-20 by paulmwhiting@...