Digital BW, The Print

Alessandro & Julian: Thanks, I will try your suggestions as they
really make sense. I have to agree that so many of my printing issues
and questions come back to basic use of Photoshop, an area where I
still need improvement. 
Bob Michaels

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Alessandro Pardi
<alessandro.pardi@i...> wrote:
> 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@b...> [mailto:bob@b...]
> 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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