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Re: [Digital BW] HWM v. EEM v. HPR, was: HWM rated more archival than EAM/EEM !?

2003-02-24 by Julian Thomas

The other thing about this is when doing an initial levels move to always
use the 'alt' key so that you can see exactly what goes to black

Julian
----- Original Message -----
From: "Alessandro Pardi" <alessandro.pardi@...>
To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Monday, February 24, 2003 12:47 PM
Subject: RE: [Digital BW] HWM v. EEM v. HPR, was: HWM rated more archival
than EAM/EEM !?


> Hi Bob,
>
> one reason might be that the image hasn't 100% blacks. You can verify it
in
> Photoshop: if the darkest parts of the picture, those that should be pure
> black, with no detail, even read 1 or 2 rather than 0, you're not getting
> the best blacks in the final print.
> As someone else posted not long ago, checking this is worth as a standard
> routine before printing, but the more so when comparing papers.
>
> Hope this helps,
> Alessandro
>
>  -----Original Message-----
> From: Bob_Michaels <bob@...> [mailto:bob@...]
> Sent: domenica 23 febbraio 2003 0:18
> To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: [Digital BW] HWM v. EEM v. HPR, was: HWM rated more archival
> than EAM/EEM !?
>
>
>
> Truman: This is amazing. I pulled out an image I just printed on all
> three papers. Critically comparing the HPR and EEM prints side by
> side, I simply can see no difference in the blacks, shadow detail or
> highlights. And, the base of the EEM is very slightly whiter than the
> HPR. All different from your observations. Maybe they vary in
> production batches. Anyway, very puzzling.
> Bob Michaels
>
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