Digital BW, The Print

Hi Chris,

I believe Stephen gave you the proper link...If not, let me know and I will
find it for you. As Stephen said, it was pretty obscure so I would have to
poke around outbackphoto's website to find it again. Give it a try and let
us know what you think.

Alan

----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris Hargens" <ldmr@...>
To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Friday, November 01, 2002 8:36 AM
Subject: [Digital BW] Re: Yellow EAM (Outback curve)


> I'd like to experiment with the curve you mentioned, but I couldn't
> find it at the Outback site. Could you direct me to it? Thanks.
>
> Chris Hargens
>
>  --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., "A. Huntley"
> <prasepe@a...> wrote:
> > Don't know if this message made it to the group because I received
> something back from Yahoo indicating that it bounced...so...I'm
> trying again...
> >
> > I know this hasn't been discussed lately but, recently, I picked up
> a box of 8.5x11 EAM from my local CompUSA (batch 02CC2004M) for
> experimenting with some B&W conversions of color images. Immediately
> upon pulling the first print off the printer I noticed that it looked
> slightly different from what I was used to seeing. Remembering the
> discussions on this forum about "yellowish" EAM with newer lot
> numbers, I pulled out my trusty supply of "old" A3 EAM and compared
> the two. The newer paper was visibly more yellow than the old!
> >
> > Feeling the desperation begin to set in--what will I print on when
> my A3 (my primary size) runs out?--I began experimenting with Photo
> Rag; my favorite paper when I used Piezo inks. I selected a grayscale
> image that I was very familiar with and began printing it using
> Paul's neutral-cool and warm-neutral curves along with gamma
> adjustments, and toner variation via the yellow slider. I should
> mention that all my quads are produced on an 1160 with MIS VM inkset,
> and Paul's curves for this printer. My goal was to match, as closely
> as possible, the same image previously printed with the Piezo driver
> and PiezoTone ST inks. Figuring that the ST inks had warmed some I
> knew that an exact match certainly wouldn't be possible. But, I was
> just looking for something close...and I think I found a possible
> solution. Using the warm-neutral curve with the yellow slider set on
> 0 (that is, no change) and applying a +1 contrast adjustment curve
> that I downloaded from outbackphoto.com, I was able to produce just
> about the most stunning print of this particular image, to date. And,
> though the tonality was not exactly the same as the Piezo print
> (naturally) the overall and local contrast was just about a dead
> match. The VM print...somehow...look brighter, though! I was very
> excited, and plan to experiment with this technique further using
> other images.
> >
> > Just thought I'd let the group know the ramblings of yet another
> quad printer pushing for something "a little different" and a "little
> better!"
> >
> > Happy printing,
> > Alan
> >
> > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
>
>
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