Digital BW, The Print

Here is the response from the man who made my test prints, I e-mailed 
him with my comments:

	The �grid� you mention is created by the LCD panel we use to create 
the digital negative image in the enlarger. It is always there in the 
background, but as this is an enlarger, and magnification increases 
with larger print sizes, you tend to see it more on larger print sizes. 
We do not usually recommend b/w prints over 20x16 are made on our 
system because of this, although some users do, as their market will 
bear this quality quite happily.
	As you can see on the 11x14 I supplied, the pattern is much reduced, 
marginal enough to be comparable with inkjet dots at this size or 
smaller by most of our customers. At smaller print sizes it is 
invisible to the naked eye. To some of our black and white buyers, the 
superior contrast range attainable by real photo paper offered such an 
advantage over inkjet (along with considerable material cost and 
workflow time savings) that even at larger sizes our prints were 
preferable.

Hope this helps to explain. Please call or email if you have any 
further questions.

Regards,
James Boyce.


Well that settles it for me, not going to work.
Mark


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