Digital BW, The Print

Nick, I'm about as picky a person as you will ever see. I think that digital prints are superior in every way to darkroom prints. They are
sharper, the shadow detail is greater, the highlight detail is greater, and you can do things in photoshop not even the worlds greatest
printers could do in the darkroom. I really do think you have something wrong with your system. You are aware of the fact that about 5
percent of epson printers are dead on arrival, aren't you? You just may have a bad printer. I have had one that was dead when I opened the
box. It banded and nothing on earth I could do would get it to not band. The replacement was perfect.


Jerry



Nicholas Hartmann wrote:

> >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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