Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Douglas 
meeuwsen <lipshurt@m...> wrote:
> Howdy....
> having a great time this summer with my 2400
> I'm pretty sure that everyone is hip to lenswork magazine, and I 
am 
> wondering if any of us has been able to get that color of print, 
using 
> the Advanced BW mode of the K3 inkset. The warm setting is not 
quite 
> it, so I am doing a bit of experimentation. I have a pretty nice 
> setting of Horizontal =2 and verticle =10 that I like but it is 
not 
> that lenswork color. That might be some kind of duo-tone that is 
way 
> over my head, and might need different settings for the highlights 
and 
> shadows. Anybody trying to get that vibe out of K3?

Howdy back!

Lenswork is using a duo-tone for its printing and therefore it will 
be hard to match this exactly with the R2400. I too am having fun 
playing around with the tone settings, with my goal being to make as 
best a match to my darkroom work as possible. I have found that very 
small movements verticle and horizontal make easily perceptible 
differences (at least to my eyes) in tone. I have experienced 
the "neutral/darker" setting to have the slightest blue green cast, 
experienced as "cold". My wife noticed this as well. I have been 
slowly nudging the controls and am liking vertical 2/horizontal 2 
for getting something without that percieved blue/ green cast. 
Movements farther out on the wheel start to look "colored" to my 
eye, but still pleasing. I think this tool is going to be pretty 
useful at dialing in just what you want in the look of a print.