Digital BW, The Print

Does that mean if I want less ink laid down (not causing a sheen on 
the darker areas) then I need to choose a lower percentage on the ink 
separation chart as the darkest ink used and compare the others to 
that step?

Your friend in Photography,

Johnny

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Steve Kale 
<stevekale@b...> wrote:
> The ink load will be fixed/determined by your curve creation - note 
it is
> dpi setting dependent.  The ICC profiles are a better (more 
sophisticated)
> way of dealing with tonal compression.
> 
> 
> > From: Johnny Eades <jeades1@s...>
> > Reply-To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
> > Date: Sun, 01 May 2005 17:04:08 -0000
> > To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
> > Subject: [Digital BW] Re: QTR question
> > 
> > Steve,
> > 
> > Thanks for your information about using any inkset.I'll install 
them
> > and run the ink separation/curve creator procedure. When using 
one of
> > the already created curves (EEM) as the basis for my first curve 
on
> > H'muhle Photo Matte 170gsm paper, I found too much ink was laid 
down
> > and caused buckling of the paper, even after linearizing the inks.
> > Then I used Tom Zuber Black Point procedure to determine the least
> > amount of ink that would produce maximum black without loosing 
DMax.
> > Now my shadows have a longer ---  tonal range and details that 
were
> > not visible before changing the BP are visible now. And it saves 
me
> > from wasting a lot of ink unneccessarily.
> > 
> > Your friend in Photography,
> > 
> > Johnny 
> >