Digital BW, The Print

My experience and desires are the same as yours. Tone is a function of
paper choice as well as ink. Read Clayton Jones paper comparison
tests. http://www.cjcom.net/articles/digiprn5.htm Personally, I really
like the Hawk Mountain Condor BW for the images I shoot. That's
neutral with Eboni to my eye. 

Bob Michaels

  --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "bellis33624"
<bellis60@v...> wrote:
> 
> I recently (a couple days ago) switched from MIS VM inks to UT2 inks 
> using a 1280 printer with EEM paper and the Roark neutral UT2 curve 
> for that paper. Instead of obtaining netural black and white tones 
> similar to a BO print, I get slightly pinkish or slightly warm tones, 
> which I assume is because the "netural" curve is really a curve 
> designed to produce a selenium toned look. However, I don't want an 
> obvious "this print was selenium toned" look, which I never liked in 
> a darkroom and which I don't like here. I just want good netural 
> blacks, whites, and midtones similar to what I can get with BO prints 
> and similar to what I can get in a darkroom. 
> 
> FWIW, in addition to using the neutral curve I've played around with 
> the Epson sliders, generally increasing cyan and reducing magenta, 
> and while that certainly changed the look of the print it still left 
> me with slightly pinkish looking tones. I have run cleaning cycles, 
> which MIS tech support said was all that was needed when switching 
> from VM to UT2 (and, if it matters, I've properly aligned the heads 
> and I get good nozzle checks).
> 
> Could someone either (a) point me to a dowloadable curve that will 
> produce neutral black and whites with UT2 inks and this printer and 
> paper, or (b) provide me with slider settings in the Epson driver 
> that will produce that result, (c) tell me what changes need to be 
> made to the Roark neutral EEM UT2 curve to obtain netural blacks and 
> whites, or (d) provide any other suggestions for accomplishing what 
> I'm trying to accomplish? Thanks.