Digital BW, The Print

Benoît,

That is good news on the LightJet prints. I would really like to get 
a look at one. Anyone like to contribute 31 to the print exchange?

Martin

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., Benoit Malphettes 
<Benoit@s...> wrote:
> To update my post of 09- 07 re: partly switching to digital:
> <We did a test with a B&W neg outputted to a LighJet and were 
disappointed,
> no deep black and overall an RC print feel to it.>
> Realizing they did this print blind I gave them a fiberbase print 
of the
> same neg to attempt to match (btw, I picked on purpose a very 
difficult
> negative 
http://www.studiocharis.com/PagesHTML/Black&WhiteHTML/09_6197.html
> 
<http://www.studiocharis.com/PagesHTML/Black&WhiteHTML/09_6197.html> )
 . And
> the great news (to me) is that A&I was able to match that print with
> stunning accuracy. Blacks are very deep and the tonal range simply
> remarkable. This would finally allow me the freedom to offer 
unlimited
> retouching for my B&W portrait clients and still retain the quality 
I want,
> even in very large prints.
> I should get my 7000 quad inks test print done in two weeks.
> This photographer's life is getting interesting all over again/
> 
> Benoît
> http://studiocharis.com
> 
> Ps Martin thanks for the your kind words on the website...