Digital BW, The Print

Tim Timmermans wrote:

>The initial prints on my 2200 look great or I should say "looked"
>great until I laid some out on the bed in front of the window. I had
>been looking at them straight on but lying on the bed and seeing them
>at an angle I noticed the blacks looked posterized or solarized or
>something. It was like you could see the layers as if they were raised
>a little higher than the colors or were wet. Very disturbing.
>
>I placed some of my 1280 prints next to them and the 1280 prints
>looked fine. Very photographic in appearance.
>
>Prior to this, in order to better match my prints to my monitor I made
>a serious adjustment to the brightness on the monitor raising the
>brightness from 50% to to 87.4% because my prints have always come out
>brighter than they look on the monitor. I would often make a
>brightness adjustment to the print before printing and I could get it
>closer but still not perfect. This adjustment to the monitor seemed a
>better match when the print came out but that is when I noticed this
>wetness/solarization. I honestly think the two issues are unrelated as
>an earlier 2200 print done prior to the monitor adjustment exhibited a
>similar solarization as the print done afterwards.
>
>Any explanation or suggestions about this? Anyone else had this problem?
>
>Tim
>
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This is called bronzing and it's the price to pay for longlivety. Some 
papers show less bronzing than the others. Ilford shows less, but it's 
still there. The Epson 2000 had far more bronzing than the 2200. Matte 
paper has no bronzing.
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Hans Van Rafelghem
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