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Re: How long to wait for densitometry

2005-02-28 by dlruckus

Hi,
I've noticed that it does take several days for my prints to " dry
down " to stable tone levels.They are generaly brighter after a couple
of days. Never checked with densitometer but I avoid rapid judgements
because of the observation. Just my personal experience.
Duane





--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Francis Ford
<francisford45@y...> wrote:
> Could you see this lighter shift  to the naked eye?
> --- "Stephen P. Veillette" <stephen@v...>
> wrote:
> 
> > 
> > I'm in the process of creating curves in QTR for MIS
> > UT-FSN, and I wait at least an hour for 
> > the test patterns to dry/settle before performing
> > densitometry on them, but I've noticed 
> > that a day later, the densities have changed
> > slightly (lighter).
> > 
> > My question, then, is how long should one ideally
> > wait before performing densitometry to 
> > create a QTR curve?
> > 
> > -Steve
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> 
> 
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