Digital BW, The Print

>I have a few of Todd's prints. If you aren't happy with them, then I
>would suspect that quad inkjet printing may not be what you want to
>use.
>
>Most people who are moving to inkjet from smooth silver prints face a
>major adjustment. While the majority of the people on the list are
>working very hard and successfully with inkjet, there are going to be
>people who will be happier staying with silver or pursuing one the
>other digital approaches.
>
>At least after seeing Todd's prints you will know whether you have a
>tech problem or if the medium just can't provide the results you are
>looking for.

Martin -

You may very well be right. I think my problem is that while every approach
to inkjet output of photographs that I've tried so far -- black-only, MIS
VM, Piezo -- differs from (OK, falls short of) a real photograph, the
black-only method at least fails in a familiar way: the highlights can be
coarse, the tonal range gets short and/or funky. The mottling that I'm
seeing (I repeat, that -> I <- am seeing) with MIS VM is like nothing I've
ever seen in a photograph. (Bear in mind that I shoot 35mm only, and that I
quite like little black dots on a white background.) Maybe people who use
nothing but medium and large format haven't seen film grain in years, and
the particular tonal characteristics of MIS VM are unobjectionable -> TO
THEM.

In any case, I eagerly look forward to seeing Todd's prints. If they look
perfect to me, of course, then I'm back to figuring out what exactly I'm
doing wrong...

Thanks again for helping,

-- Nick

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