Digital BW, The Print

Has anyone who has tried T. Boley's cold curve noticed that there is an 
extreme crossover in colors? One of them
shows certain gray tones to be absolutely blue. Prints look terrible. on 
EEM paper, 1280 Printer, MIS VM inkset.

Jerry

Haven't tried the others in the set yet, this was the Cold05 curve.


Jeff Korte wrote:
> Ed,
> 
> I started out using the same curves on a 1280 (Mac), VM inks, 
> CIS and bumped into the same things you're describing. 
> 
> I switched to Tyler Boley's curves (available somewhere here in 
> the files section, I believe. All of my curve issues disappeared 
> and I'm very happy with the VM ink and HM photo rag 
> combination.
> 
> Jeff
> 
> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Ed 
> Mathews" <ed@l...> wrote:
> 
> 
>>3.  I like the tone of the Medium Warm curve, but it starts to 
> 
> introduce
> 
>>a kind of solorized look to some of the tones, and I can't seem 
> 
> to
> 
>>figure out what tones it's doing this with, it seems random and 
> 
> they
> 
>>just show up as weird highlights in places.
>>4.  The warm curve makes this solorized look even worse, truly 
> 
> looking
> 
>>like a darkroom flashing while it's in the developer.  It's totally
>>unusable for me.
>>
>>I'm ready to try another set of curves, but a visit to the MIS site
>>doesn't show anything else specifically written for the 1280 and 
> 
> VM
> 
>>inks.  I'll happily take 
> 
> recommendations/explanations/comments.
> 
>>Thanks,
>>Ed
>>http://lightandsilver.com
> 
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