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Re: [Digital BW] Lightjet for b&w

2004-07-21 by Clayton Jones

Hello Stephen,

>Clayton - At least at the lab I use, the LightJet uses color RC
paper, >and there are only two or three choices of paper surfaces that
they >carry.  So there is no VC filtration; the paper is exposed by
>laser or led.
> 
>All I really meant to say is that it was frustrating for me to find 
>that files I had printed in my studio as inkjet prints in which you 
>could see a difference between a 1-2% K and paper white, or in which 
>you could see a separation between 98% K and 99% K lost those 
>distinctions no matter what I did to the files that were printed as 
>LightJets.

Ok, understood.  Someday we'll look back on these pioneering days of
struggle the same way we now look back on the days of covered wagons
pulled by oxen.

Regards,
Clayton


Info on black and white digital printing at    
http://www.cjcom.net/digiprnarts.htm

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