Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "David 
Wroblewski" <dawroblewski@y...> wrote:
> Hi all, I had a strange experience today and I need some 
> advice. I discovered a public art opportunity in my area with 
> short notice last week. They require 5 slides of my 
> prints for judging. These are B&W prints made on a 2200 with
> the standard UltraChrome inks, standard Epson driver.
> 
> I'd never shot slides of prints before, but I decided to set 
> up my 35mm Nikon and shoot a roll of Ektachrome 64T tungsten
> balanced film. How hard could that be? I closed the vertical
> blinds, taped the prints to a black matt board & hung them on 
> a wall, set up a couple of tungsten photo lights (3200K) 
> (not strobes) and exposed 36 slides for 1/4 second, based on 
> my spotmeter reading (with some aperture-based bracketing to 
> cover my bets.) No filter on the camera or in front of the 
> lights.
> 
> As far as I understand, this is all standard operating procedure 
> for photographing flat artwork. Though as I say, I've never done
> this before.
> 
> I just picked up the slides. They were exposed correctly, but 
> every one has a deep magenta cast. The prints looked nicely 
> neutral to my eye when shooting. 
> 
> I could shoot another roll of slides, but I don't understand
> what I ought to change. Is it possible this is a function 
> of metamerism in the UC inks that only appears on color film?
> (That sound ridiculous to me--I'm embarrassed to even state the
> question. But there it is.) Has anyone shot slides of UC prints 
> as described above and got neutral results? Or can someone guess 
> from the above description what sort of dopey mistake I made?
> Could the lab that processed the film have screwed them up
> somehow?
> 
> Thanks for all advice,
> David
> 
> ps. I know I could find a service bureau to print the slides
> from a digital file, or use Scala, but I thought this would be 
> both cheaper and faster. In the future, when I have more time to 
> prepare, I imagined I would use Scala.

Are you sure you're not using 3400K lights?