Digital BW, The Print

In a message dated 7/29/2004 3:07:40 AM Eastern Daylight Time, 
DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com writes:


> I printed a picture with my 2200 UT7 today that has a large area of 
> artifically created gradient (black to 50% grey).
> 
> What i noticed (and its not subtle) is that with all of the curves 
> that i tried for enhanced matt... there is banding (with all curves) 
> throuout the region of 70% (grey) to 100% (black)... the banding is 
> in the form of uneven gradients (banding pattern varies between 
> curves).  its only noticible just in that region and once it gets to 
> the lighter gradient areas, it looks fine.  Is this to be expected 
> for this system? or am i doing something wrong?
> 

You might want to try to add noise (1 or 2) using Photoshop "add noise". That 
should  fix the problem. It does for me in my color portraits when I do an 
extreme "soft focus" gaussian blur. If I don't add noise, I get gradient banding 
in the images.

Claude


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