Digital BW, The Print

Why waste money on printing something that you really
want to keep on your printer. Upload it to a
professional lab and let them do the work. That is the
reason I love digital. You only keep the best and then
you print only the ones you really want to keep. It
has worked for me. I grayscale and then do the other
stps such as contrast and brightness. I just received
back from Kodak a black and white of my son in law and
it is great. I also tinted a picture of my niece and
it turned out great. I have a new Epson printer but it
seems I can't consistantly print the quality that I
like. My pictures always look as good or better when
they come back from the lab. 
I though that I could be happy with a printer, but
have spend more money than it would have taken to send
them to a good lab. I occasionaly do use the printer
to do something for a friend in a hurry. I have a Fuji
6900 and my pictures are excellent quality. I can
enlarge up to a 30x40. 
Just want to put my thoughts on this on the message
board. 
BJ
--- jimhayes361 <jimhayes@...> wrote:
> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y...,
> "daintreeriver2002" 
> <workmantx@a...> wrote:
> > I am a serious amateur photographer and have
> invested in quite a bit 
> > of computer/digital equipment in the past 6 months
> in order to set 
> up 
> > a digital darkroom.  I'm happy with my color
> prints, but not so with 
> > my black and whites.  I would greatly appreciate
> any tips or sources 
> > of information to successfully print black and
> white photographs.  
> 
> Experience. Yours, not mine.
> 
> ALL inksets/papers will have
> advantages/disadvantages, and what's 
> more, they vary from person to person. You could
> read posts going back 
> on this and other groups, but even that would be
> colored by personal 
> bias (even mine<g>), conjecture and lack of
> experimental information. 
> Also, new products are coming out now, namely the
> 2200 printer and the 
> new Piezo inks.
> 
> The only thing I MIGHT suggest is that something you
> like now may 
> change in six months, either because something
> better comes out, or an 
> unseen problem with your existing setup arises.
> Sometimes the problems 
> are blatent and/or occur immediately, but many times
> they are subtle 
> and you don't notice a change in your printing
> quality right away. 
> Often you have to jump on a bandwagon before the
> system has been out 
> for half a year...oh well. Part of my "workflow" is
> to try as best I 
> can to be observant about the current product I use
> and be flexible to 
> changing products- not always easy to do.
> 
> In this light, although much more expensive, trying
> out carts before 
> going to a plumbing system of CFS/CIS might be wise.
> 
> I'm sorry I don't mean to sound cynical or scare you
> away or confuse 
> you. Actually this is an optimistic time in
> printing, simply because 
> so many choices are out there. It's just that there
> is no instant, 
> tidy, consistantly superior, undisputed sucess (some
> will dispute 
> this<g>)- it's try and tweak. And INVESTIGATE for
> yourself.
> 
> I will however congraulate you on your printer
> choice, I am happy with 
> my 1280 despite the chip nonsense.
> Jim H.
> 
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