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Re: [Digital BW] Lightjet for b&w

2004-07-21 by Stephen Petegorsky

Steve - I don't think I can give you the reasons for it, but the LightJet
prints I've had done are not neutral unless you work to make them that way
after getting the lab's profile.  Perhaps it has something to do with the
paper; traditional darkroom printing paper obviously varies in tone away
from neutral depending on the chemical make-up of its emulsion and the
chemicals in which it is processed.  In terms of the range, the d-max might
be greater that what I get with UT-2 on PhotoRag, but there is compression
of the lowest tones and a loss of information in the highlights earlier than
there would be with inkjet printing.

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