Digital BW, The Print

Jenny,

I am glad to hear of your success. I would be interested in seeing 
the results from your set-up. You may want to consider signing up 
with one of Tom O'Connell's monthly print exchanges.

Regards.

Shilesh

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "byushooter" 
<jellerbe@j...> wrote:
> Shilesh,
> 
> I just wanted to let you know that I have my first set of prints 
> done with my new piezo carbon sepia/K7 inkset.  After trying all 
the 
> options given me here, I ended up using the 1) Museum K, 2) Dark 
> carbon sepia, 3) Medium carbon sepia, and 4) light K7 blended with 
> the light carbon sepia (blended using the copy curve and adjusting 
> the ink limits).  I think it's possible I could have gotten good 
> results with any of the methods. I did try them all initially but 
> ended up going with this formula. 
> 
> The prints with this combo are still very much warm toned prints 
but 
> are more "brown" than "red" and the highlights are very white (as 
> white as they can be on photo rag).  The step wedge is smooth and I 
> don't see any problems in the transition areas (with my untrained 
> eye).  I am really happy with the prints but will probably fiddle 
> with them a bit more just to make sure I haven't overlooked some 
> minor tweaking I could do.
> 
> Also, I did a "neutral" curve using the Museum black and the 3 K7 
> inks and it is far from neutral.  It is a very cold print even when 
> compared to the sample K7 print I got from Inkjetmall.  Either 
there 
> is something wrong with my curve (very possible although I don't 
> have any inks loaded but the carbon sepia and K7, nothing to cool 
> the tone) or the other 3 shades of K7 that I don't have influence 
> the tone in some way.  I am guessing that I can blend the carbon 
> sepia curve with the "neutral" curve and actually get something 
> neutral.  I just haven't had time to try it yet.
> 
> Thanks to you (and everyone else here) for helping me figure this 
> out.
> 
> Jenny