Digital BW, The Print

Hi, Bill,

Yes, and there IS a problem with stepwedges. Too much of a gap between
pure black and the next patch on the wedge. SO far, though, the actual
prints look great. But this is with landscape images. Portraits might be
a problem. This is on the 1280 printer with the 6 hexone VM inks. Paul
Thinks he can write a curve that may help, I'm going to send him some
scans and we'll see what happens. I can't understand how the black is so
much richer with this setting.  

Jerry

Bill Morse wrote:
> 
> Jerry, have you tried printing out a step wedge with this setting- That will
> show if there is a problem.
> 
> Bill
> 
> on 11/27/01 4:33 PM, Jerry Olson wrote:
> 
> ...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.
> 
> Jerry
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