Digital BW, The Print

Sure it is a physicological issue for you and for everyone who 
believes-may be in certain moments-that he lives in a physiological 
world;-).
Everybody will see what he wants to to see! That´s why marketing is 
so important in our society. (Make the visitors of your exhibition  
believe that they are looking at the best prints they have ever seen)
If you want to know how I had solved your specific (physiological)
problem, -here is the answer:
I make a testprint (detailed full res)) to check for banding, 
sharpness i.e.
But I am sitting down before the screen only when I have the "power" 
to maker a print. (Power=emotion=making faults=thinking 
paradoxical=and so on.) Than I turn on my tube amplifier and listen 
Chet Baker or Patti Smith and I know that I am alive within these 
moments. And when the print comes out: WOWWW! What a print I say!! 
Sometimes there is banding visible the next day and I am down with 
my nerves. But I never will miss what I have felt the day before.

I can recommend: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-
/0387953922/qid=1081878524/sr=1-
1/ref=sr_1_1_xs_stripbooks_i1_xgl14/103-0831820-7091857?
v=glance&s=books

Hope this helps
Bernard


--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "bobphoto" 
<bobphoto@a...> wrote:
> After reading all of these thoughful replies, I concur that it may 
be psychological and/or physiological but I think it is physical as 
well as John suggests.  I think when you scale down an image the 
detail in the large image spreads out a little bit taking up more 
space than it should and thus puts more ink on paper.  For all of 
these reasons I will make test prints from a section of the image at 
full size like I do in the darkroom.  
> 
> Thanks to all,
> 
> Bob
>   ----- Original Message ----- 
>   From: John Vitollo 
>   To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com 
>   Sent: Monday, April 12, 2004 11:46 PM
>   Subject: [Digital BW] Re: Image Density vs. Print Size I'm with 
Bob on this one!
> 
> 
>   "bobphoto" wrote:
>   > I have come to the conclusion that when making a test print 
you have to take a section 
>   of an image and print it full size rather than re-sizing the 
whole image to make a small 
>   print.  > Bob
> 
>   I'm with Bob on this one! A few weeks ago I did a test print on 
my Epson 1200 loaded with 
>   Fotonics. I wanted to test the new Kodak Ultra paper. I resized 
an 8x10 image in 
>   Photoshop in the Print with Preview down to about 3x4 inches to 
place more than one 
>   image on the paper. The print came out with the black ink area 
area all crackled - looks 
>   like an orange skin -  and thought "crap this paper is not 
compatible with Fotonics". But 
>   decided to print a full size image and guess what? Made a fairly 
nice image and the black 
>   areas were not crackled or blocked - had full detail and smooth 
surface.
> 
>   Could be sizing down image increases the resolution to the point 
where the printer/driver 
>   can not handle it.
> 
>   John V. 
> 
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