Digital BW, The Print

Jerry,

Nick's was on Heavy Weight Matte and I did mine on EAM. Both Nick's 
image and my image contain a lot of stone, stucco, brick, etc. 
surfaces. In the "Custom" settings of the Epson driver I used a 1440 
dpi printer setting and picked "Matte Paper - Heavy Weight" Printed 
on the Epson 1280. I don't see any banding or window screen. A hint 
of artifacts in a small patch of sky but only if I magnify.

I think this is a very image dependent method and, at a guess, there 
needs to be little or no bunching of tones at either end of the 
histogram.

Martin

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., Jerry Olson 
<jerryolson@r...> wrote:
> What paper, Martin?
> 
> On the Epson matte, the little artifacts/banding/screendoor 
patterns, etc were not good looking. It didn't look at all like a 
nice even film
> grain. Maybe on a different paper it would look entirely different. 
Also, I didn't use grainy 35mm film, so it looks as though the prints
> would never look like Nick's. Sometime I'll try this with a grainy 
35mm neg. Might be pleasantly surprised!
> 
> Jerry