Digital BW, The Print

Thanks for your help Steve. I will try those papers.
You know, with my older Epson printers, I always had excellent results
letting the printer driver comntrol the output rather than PS. I was
very pleased with how easy it was. (shrug)
 Perhaps a matter of personal preference.
 I'm not sure I'm ready to do densitometry quite yet. I DO have a
densitomter that I used in my darkroom days for checking film
denisties when doing Tri-X development times/ASA calibration on my
Pentax 6X7.
 We shall see.......
 I must say, I am very impressed with what the 2400 does with B&W
right out of the box!
 Best
  Ginny
 


--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Steve Kale
<stevekale@...> wrote:
>
> Stick to a Gray Gamma 2.2 (or Adobe RGB) workspace.  Leave the controls
> other than the "hue" (the colour picker) in their default positions and
> figure out your favourite hue setting for various papers that you
use.  Use
> PS as your image editor rather than the driver.  If you have access to a
> densitometer or spectrophotometer, couple this with a QTR ICC
profile for
> each of your favourite settings and papers.  (If you don't have
access to
> one, others here who do may be prepared to measure and make the
profiles for
> you from patch strips you print.)
> 
> Papers worth trying include Epson Ultrasmooth and Hahnemuhle
Photorag, but
> there are many others.  Listen in here and you'll quickly learn the
usual
> suspects.
> 
> Have fun!
> 
> 
> > From: ginnylady33 <ginnylady33@...>
> > Reply-To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
> > Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2006 21:56:53 -0000
> > To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
> > Subject: [Digital BW] Few B&W 2400 questions
> > 
> >   I finally got my 2400 from Page Computer at the $675 sale price.
> > 
> > I've been printing on Epson Heavyweight Matte until now. I'm wondering
> > which of the Fine Art papers you'd recommend I try? I've not used any
> > for B&W.
> > 
> >  Also, any pointers on playing with the Advanced B&W controls on the
> > 2400? Might there be an article on tweaking those>?
> > 
> >  Appreciatively
> >  Ginny
>