Digital BW, The Print

Do the Paul Roark's curves act sort of like "actions"?  Is it the 
same thing?  I'm not sure how that works.  I use Fred Miranda's 
actions for b&w when printing with the s900.  I have to go 
to "greyscale" with Piezo, do you just "ignore" that with the 
curves?  Help me a little and...

Thanks.

Treadwinkle

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., Jerry Olson 
<jerryolson@r...> wrote:
> Nothing wrong with the print quality on EAM paper, with the 1280. I
> haven't used the warm neutral piezotone inks, so can't help you 
there.
> MIS inks work great, with paul roark's curves though. They make a 
lot of
> inksets, you might want to check them out.  
> 
> But EAM paper is very nice with most inks I've used on it. (Tain't
> really archival, of course).
> 
> Jerry
> 
> treadwinkle wrote:
> > 
> > Can I snailmail you some of my images so maybe you could help me
> > figure out what's wrong?
> > 
> > Shadows, like muddy goo and the resolution, with images at 291 
dpi,
> > just nothing special.  I'm really disappointed thusfar.  I'm 
hoping
> > that when I FINALLY get a paper other than EAM, I'll see
> > satisfaction, but thusfar, eventhough they've got a color cast, 
my
> > Canon s900 on Ilford Galerie Classic Pearl is doing a better job
> > with b&w than is my Epson 1280 w/Piezotone warm neutrals.  My 
images
> > are from a Canon d60 using Photoshop 7.
> > 
> > I'm just not "getting" it.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Treadwinkle
> > 
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