Digital BW, The Print

Clayton and David,

Thank you both for your comments.  David, you said exactly what I've
been thinking of doing.  Clayton, the photo was taken on TMAX100 35mm
film with a yellow filter.  I processed it in XTOL 1:1 and scanned it on
my KM Scan Dual IV at 3200 DPI using VueScan.  My printer is a 1280
using QTR with the UT2 inks set to 75% neutral and 25% carbon.  So far
the papers I've used are EEM, HPR, and Hawk Mountain's Peregrine Velvet
250.  I used the EEM curves for the Peregrine.  My favorite so far is
the Peregrine.  It prints a bit sharper than HPR.  For the reasons you
mentioned in the yellow paper thread, EEM served as my proofing paper.
HPR and Peregrine both track the EEM image extremely well.

I have a hunch that after I implement David's suggestions, I'll get a
better print using less neutral and more carbon.  Being I'm relatively
new to this, my biggest challenge is using my image editor, Picture
Window Pro, to maximum advantage.  Clayton, several months back I
purchased one of your 5x7 prints.  Your print and some sample prints
Paul gave out at the camp are serving as targets of what I am aiming
for.

Bob