Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "john dean" 
<deanwork2003@y...> wrote:
> I just received my sample print of the K7 inkset and I am shocked 
>at how ordinary this print looks.
...
> Look, Jon Cone knows more about digital monochrome than I'll ever 
>know but someting isn't right with this sample print. I just looks 
>dull.
> Has anyone else received one and if so what are your first 
>impressions?
> 

We received ours yesterday, and I have similar feelings. The 
highlights on the water tower appeared to have abrupt changes, like 
mild posterisation, but it was difficult to tell because of the 
banding. Maybe a nozzle was blocked when they printed ours. The best 
D-Max I could measure was 1.65, which seems rather low. There were 
patches of detailless shadow, but I guess that could have been on 
the negative. The print was, however, dead neutral within the 
reading accuracy of our TR924 densitometer.

Maybe a simple 0-255 step wedge would have told us more.

I'm still interested in trying the system (with IJC/OPM, because 
that's what we use) but I would like to see a better print, or have 
the original file for comparison. Of course I should be writing this 
to Inkjetmall, but I saw John's post and decided to respond.

Best, Helen