Digital BW, The Print

Thanks, I'll give it a whirl. I printed the same image with my old Mac
and it came out just fine. Now to beat on the Linux version...

Roger


On Sat, 2003-11-01 at 12:53, Roy Harrington wrote:
> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Roger Sopher 
> <rlsopher@c...> wrote:
> > Hi Roy,
> > 
> > In printing a scene that has a lot of fluffy clouds, the sepia toner
> > tends to produce distinct rings around areas where the clouds
> lighten. I
> > have tried splits of 95 gray to 5 toner all the way to 50-50. And
> though
> > the overall toning adjusts nicely the ringing phenomenon is pretty
> much
> > universal. It almost looks like posterization but only with the
> toner.
> > 
> > If I print with only the gray curve I get a nice print without
> artifacts
> > but, of course, no toning.
> > 
> > What adjustment(s) to the ink txt files would you suggest to try to
> > control this> Would dropping the highlight value or changing the
> gamma
> > value effect it?
> > 
> > Roger
> 
> Hi Roger,
> 
> Are you using the original toner-curve.raw file?  I believe that it
> was created using the Mac byte order.  PC's have the opposite byte
> order.  You should open grayscale16.psd, apply the toner-curve.acv
> and Save As a Raw format and select the PC ordering not the Mac 
> ordering.
> 
> Roy
> 
> 
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