Digital BW, The Print

Bob,

Good question but no clear cut answer. Probably depends upon the individual
perception of what is neutral and what is pleasing. I guess our best mono
color prints are not so mono after all. Before I started with all this
digital printing I had never looked so closely at my silver prints as I have
in the last year.

Martin Wesley

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Bob Frost" <bobfrost@...>
To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Saturday, August 03, 2002 12:46 PM
Subject: Re: [Digital BW] Number of tones was Re: Do inkjets dither or not?


> Martin,
>
> So when does a Black&White print become a color print?
>
> Bob Frost.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Martin Wesley" <mwesley250@...>
>
> > This is at the heart of the issue with grayscale inks. One of the things
> > that makes a toned silver print so wonderful is that it is not just
shades
> > of gray but that it varies in hue as it varies in luminance. That is why
I
> > am so fond of the MIS-VM and Selenium PiezoTone inks. They give you a
> > variation in color as they change in density. This is important because
it
> > makes it easier for our eye to distinguish between different print
> > densities. Our eyes seem to be incredibly sensitive to slight color
> changes
> > near the neutral point which makes it difficult to get a truly neutral
> > print. What we want to do is to take advantage of that fact to enhance
our
> > prints.