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Re: [Digital BW] solarized print

2014-10-22 by paulmwhiting@...

My apologies... I just discovered an error in my carrying out Paul's suggestions. Something gnawed at me to look at my K-0-40 printout of the 21 step file. I discovered my K-0-40 curve had its default ink limit set to 100. Somehow I must have altered that a lont time ago.

Now, when I compare the "densities" of that file with the Calibration there is a significant difference between the two. I'll just list the first several entries:

percent... Calibration Print.... 21-step file
0.................. 0........................0
5..................151.....................192
10.................97......................156
15..................73.....................127
20..................55.....................107
25..................44.......................92
30...................40.....................82
35...................36......................74
40....................34......................70

and so on. The Calibration print levels off after this, but the 21 step entries don't level off till about 75 or 80%.

Again, these are not true densities but they are eyedropper readings of the steps when the two are compared with the eyedropper in Photoshop.

Now what... all I can think of is relinearizing.

Paul

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