Digital BW, The Print

Hello Peter,

>Five settings:Light to Darkest. The manual gives the following 
>explantion for Dark - applies a soft tone to your photos. What 
>exactly do Epson mean by this. Has anyone figured out what these 
>settings actually do.

I can't explain Epson's statement, but it basically alters the print's
over all density.  To find what works best for you I recommend the
following: take a well exposed digicam image, convert it to grayscale
using your preferred method, and before doing any other manipulations
to it, make a few small prints at these different settings, including
Lightest, Normal, and Darkest (all other settings being the same). 
Choose the one which gives you an over all density that you feel is
closest to what you want to end up with.  This will reduce the amount
of work the image needs to achieve your final result.  

Article #9 on my web site (link below) describes a workflow for
the 2400, with step by step discussion of this and other settings.


Regards,
Clayton


Info on black and white digital printing at    
http://www.cjcom.net/digiprnarts.htm