Digital BW, The Print

Peter,
 What type of equipment does your pro lab use ? The Fuji Frontier
printers give, in my experience, BW which is neutral under ambient
daylight and moving toward brownish under tungsten and then flourescent.

                        Stuart
8-- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Peter Nelson"
<pnweb@s...> wrote:
> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, claudej1@a... 
> wrote:
> > In a message dated 5/14/2004 5:15:42 PM Pacific Daylight Time, 
> > DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com writes:
> > Black and White was a lot cheaper, but still several
> > > thousand dollars to "do it right." Claude
> 
> > and point: 95% of B&W prints made by photogaphers out 
> > there did not have the proper wash.
> 
> I'm not sure what your point is.  I still have the BW prints I made 
> in college in the 1970's and they are still better than anytyhing 
> I've seen from a 2200. 
> 
> The 2200 with the IP RIP produces BW prints that are "good enough" - 
> a bit warm for my tastes and a bit coarse in some tonal ranges - 
> but "good enough".   But it's still true that when I want a good BW 
> from a digital file I take it to a pro lab and have a print done on 
> photographic paper.   Your philosophy is that if you want quality 
> you have to pay for it, and I agree which is why I use the pro lab 
> on those shots.