Digital BW, The Print

Very Strange Jeff.

I haven't seen this problem yet. But I did not try it on any portraits.
I've only printed about 8 or so images with that setting, and I haven't
seen any posterization.  I'm sure there is some shadow detail that is
lost, but for certain images, the deep blacks are so satisfactory I
would prefer them to the subtle shadow detail I will probably lose. I
must make more comparison prints.  I will ask Paul if curves could be
written with the backlight setting to take advantage of the deep black. 
I have not seen anything that could be called solarized.

Oops, I just noticed you are using an 1160. This setting was used on my
1280. I haven't tried it on my 1160 yet, but I will today. I bet that is
the problem.

Jerry


> I saw you Bicklight film setting tip and decided to give it a try. I
> took a portrait image file that I had recently made a nice print of
> using VM on an 1160 <warm neutral curve> on  LPM using the "matte paper
> -heavyweight setting"
> 
> Using the Backlight film setting... the printer sure did lay down a good
> black but the mid tones where all solarized and the highlights where all
> blown out. I thought something had gone terribly wrong with my printer!
> I then switched the Epson driver setting to "Matte paper- heavyweight"
> my usual setting for LPM, and out came a perfect print!
> 
> Strange....
> 
> -Jeff
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