Digital BW, The Print

i have been noticing that with my setup the same
transfer curve will not work with all images in the
same way. ie in some images the shadows need the
boosts given by the tranfer curve to keep them from
going flat. in other images, the transfer curve tends
to block up the shadows. 

prints from scans made on my polaroid 35mm scanner
look much better with the transfer curve applied.
scans from either a microtek flatbed or epson 1680
flatbed tend to look better without the transfer curve
applied. i adjust scans from both roughly the same
way. is it the scanner making a difference? for what
it is worth, i tend to leave my images as untagged rgb
or untagged grayscale files. 

as i understand it, the transfer curve is meant to
match the printer output to what is seen on the screen
because the printer is, more or less, seeing the same
K values differently than the screen. 

while i will probably create several different tansfer
curves that work better than the one i have now, it
would be nice to figure out why the transfer curve i
am using now doesn't seem to be working consistently
between images. 

thanks for any thoughts. 
michael meyer

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