Digital BW, The Print

How about a print exchange and we all use the same image file? That 
way we could compare for ourselves the different approaches.
I use the PW plugin, well it's installed but never used.Black only, 
which I use a lot because of the cost. lately IP5.6 which is giving 
me wonderful prints at a cost. Note that I use a 2200 for all of the 
above. 

Barry

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "jymbo4600" 
<jymbo46@b...> wrote:
> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Tom Baker 
> <tbaker1328@s...> wrote:
> > Yep,  Just think back to what most of us have done in the 
darkroom 
> over many years.  We tested, tested, and tested materials 'till we 
> just couldn't tolerate looking a one more test strip.  Most of us 
> found these test useful to weed out the technical process/materials 
> that simply weren't useful.  The remainder we tended to keep on 
hand 
> because most had at least some application to images we made.  
> Different film/paper/developer for differents subjects/situations.  
> And it woked well.  In a sense we have given up that flexibility 
> with digital.  It is simply too expensive for most of us to have 
all 
> of the ink/paper combinations on hand that might be useful for 
> certain images.
> >  
> > In short, I find tests useful for providing 'don't buy' 
> information, not 'buy' information.
> >  
> > Tom Baker
> > 
> Tom et al,
> 
> This is what I was getting at when I started this string. There is 
> no way physically, or financially, for most of us to try all of the 
> wonderful choices for B&W digital printing. I am VERY happy with IP 
> 5.6 on a 2200. But I have no idea what Piezo, or R9 or Septone or 
> Paul's C82/84 EZ looks like. I do have a 1270 set up with MIS QVM 
> carts and I like the look of those prints from scans on an Epson 
> 3200. I use Paul's generously provided curves. Thank you. 
> 
> I think most of us would love to see them all side by side, if 
only, 
> at the least, to feel good about our choices. I'd even like to hear 
> the opinion of a non-participant who saw the results. One would 
hope 
> that we aren't all so wedded to our own workflows that we couldn't 
> learn from a comparison.
> 
> Best, Jim Weekes