Digital BW, The Print

Today I spoke with someone at Moab.  They said that the Kayenta
formula has not changed, which means the changes must be due to
production run batches.  Other paper vendors have told me that this
can happen because the chemicals they order from their suppliers can
be different from batch to batch, which makes sense.  I have seen
variations in density among batches of other papers, and slight
variations in dmax.  But this is the first time I've seen a different
ink tone.

Anyway, this poses some questions about Kayenta.  Was my cold tone
batch the norm or was it an anomaly?  Will "most" Kayenta be cold or
warm?  IOW, can we count on it being a certain way most of the time
with the occational variant or will it continually vary from batch to
batch?

The lady at Moab was very nice and she is sending me a replacement box
to try.   They can't do anything about the paper itself, and don't
know the answers to the above questions.  They were unaware of any
differences.

I'll report more when the new paper comes.  


>I hope you will post your adjustment suggested curve/sliders what-
>have-you once you achieve good results.

I just added an adjustment curve layer, grabbed the midpoint, and
moved it upper-left 2 or 3 RGB units.


Regards,
Clayton


Info on black and white digital printing at    
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