Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Steven Karafyllakis" <steve@s...> wrote:
> Just in case anyone who makes digital negs is thinking about this 
> printer: I bought one tonight, and I'm taking it back tomorrow. It does 
> a fine job of color printing, especially with the premium profiles that 
> come with. Until, that is, you look at them with a lupe. I tried every 
> high quality setting combination I could think of but the microbanding 
> persisted. What made it worse is that the glossy pigments don't work 
> well with IJ tranny film. The saturation and contrast are so low I had 
> to crank my VC contrast up all the way, which made the microbanding and 
> the printer 'grain' perfectly obvious to even my tired eyes... All in 
> all, a total distaster, especially since there is no BO option AT ALL, 
> so you can't even take advantage of those tiny dots for that.

Steve,

I think you're going to have to wait for the 1800 port of QTR before you can get a negative out of the 1800. 

What were you printing, a UV based alternative process like Pt/Pd, or a visible light silver process? Multigrade papers are the hardest to get a clean print on, because you have to balance green and blue.