Digital BW, The Print

Frank,
There is a website that has been mentioned here often-Tom Zuber 
(www.Zubergraphics.com)that has an abundant amount of data on BW 
printing; one being determining the Black Point and White Point your 
paper/ink combination is capable of handling. After getting a 
densitometer deal on Ebay, I have found that I was laying too much 
ink on the paper to the point of it buckling. My BP (Black Point) has 
been changed to Input=0 Output=28 and I find that my tonal range is 
much longer in the lower values. You may want to go to that site and 
study some of the information for Black and White printing. 

Now that I've heard that FSN inks can be utilized in QTR curve 
creator, I'll get to working on that.

Your friend in Photography,

Johnny


In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "njfranknj" 
<kolwicz@e...> wrote:
> I've done it for my 1160 with Museo, although I haven't completed it
> yet. I have two areas where the output is screwed-up due to using my
> ScanMaker4 for analyzing the 21 patches (the SM4 does not read the
> light tones well): there is a bit of a gap between the 100% and 95%
> patches that needs to be smoothed out and the light tones from 20%
> down are totally botched and would have to be hand corrected, which 
I
> find to be too tedious.
> 
> Following the new version of the tutorial was much better than the
> earlier one and I actually got all the way through in one session 
with
> no problems with the QTR Curve Maker procedure.
> 
> Since Paul Roark's curves work pretty well with this inkset on
> PhotoRag and EEM, I may not bother to try to fix my QTR curve for
> Museo (which I'm phasing-out), but I do have one slight problem with
> Paul's PhotoRag workflow, about which I'm awaiting an answer, but
> that's another subject.
> 
> Frank
> 
> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Johnny Eades"
> <jeades1@s...> wrote:
> > I found that I have a complete set of the old FSN inks from MIS. 
Can I 
> > use the curve creator capability of QTR to make a paper/ink curve 
for 
> > the paper I am using now?
> > 
> > Your friend in Photography,
> > 
> > Johnny