Digital BW, The Print

All the posts about differences in systems highlight the fact that
evaluating this stuff is really difficult. I've got my system to the stage
that with Piezo/piezo/william turner, when I press print I get exactly what
is on the screen. It took a lot of time and paper/ink. When I started using
Museo I needed a different curve (slightly). Trying to evaluate different
inkset/drivers sounds like hell!

Julian

----- Original Message -----
From: "Todd Flashner" <tflash@...>
To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2001 7:48 PM
Subject: Re: [Digital BW] More quadtone experiences -- Black ink


> on 8/23/01 12:24 PM, Nicholas Hartmann wrote:
>
> > Thanks for the kind offer, but having you look at a scan of a step wedge
> > doesn't really address the problem, which is that _I_ don't like what
the
> > prints of my own pictures look like when I'm holding them in my hand.
>
> My guess is that you are getting too much separation in your deep tones,
> combined with the limits of Dmax on matte papers. I recommend you try
adding
> a fair amount of contrast to your image to "force" your blacks.
>
> If you haven't printed out a step wedge you should. You were implying
> posterization, and a wedge might reveal this better than a print.
>
> It's important for those who are trying to help you to know if your system
> has a problem, or if your results just aren't up to your
hopes/expectations.
> For instance, we all know our prints don't look like glossy silver prints,
> they look like something else. Are your prints just weak, or bad/wrong?
>
> Either way, I'll have something out to you in tomorrows mail.
>
> Todd
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