Digital BW, The Print

Hi Mike,

You wrote:

>I have been getting very nice results utilizing Burkholders Curve
>for the 1280 and tweaking it a bit.  ...

My goal, however, was to press the 3000 into service.  For that old
workhorse, I think the Cone driver might be the only way to get adequate
smoothness.  On the other hand, I may end up trying the Epson driver and
curves, just to see what happens.

>I am now working on silver and platinum curves for my  Epson
>10000.

That would be the expensive solution to my problem.

>... Pictorico has just released a the film in a 24" roll size.

Exactly -- that is why I'm suddenly re-interested in digital internegatives.
(I went the imagesetter route, among others, and decided I never want to
work with another service bureau, especially now that I'm in the relative
sticks of Solvang.)

Paul
http://www.PaulRoark.com

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--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., "Paul Roark" <
paul.roark@v...> wrote:
> Stephen,
>
> You wrote:
>
> >Have you tried your MIS dye mix with Pictoro media,
> >especially the transparent media. Some of us are still
> >looking for the holy grail for digital negative making.
>
> Yes, and the ink densities that work on paper don't work well
on the film.
> I've increased the midtone ink densities so that the steps in
the ramp are
> close, but there appears to be non-linear absorption
compared to the
> pigmented inks.  I'm not sure without a separate profile that I'm
going to
> be able to tame the combination.  (Since I'm about to take off
for a week, I
> probably won't have more information for a while.)
>