Digital BW, The Print

> My own experience is that during the past year I have been scanning my
> best 4x5 and 6x7 Tri-X negs and making digi prints, and the prints are
> better than I could ever do with the enlarger.  Since I'm using the
> same image source, and it may even be that the scans have less
> information than the negs, I attribute the difference to the ability
> to have precise control over areas of the image that I couldn't ever
> come close to in the darkroom.

I also find the degree of digital control to be much finer, the prints are
sharper, and there's better consistency from print to print.

Silver prints, however, are free from dither patterns and have a creamy
smoothness and subtlety of tones that I have yet to seen in a digital inkjet
print.