Digital BW, The Print

Very interesting thread, as I have been thinking about experimenting with
Cones K7. Thanks for sharing Walt.

I am using K3 on Silver Rag and the challange I find with ABW is the amount
of colour it uses.
This can cause a "rainbow effect" under directional lighting. I have found
that Imageprint uses much less colour.
Though it has its own challanges, mainly the tendency to close up the
shadows. Solved that by a combination of lowering the gamma and adjusting
the black point slider.

Mike


On 20/10/06, Clayton Jones <cj@...> wrote:
>
>   Hello Walt,
>
> Thanks for the detailed report. I have some sample K7 prints someone
> sent me awhile back, and your observations are right in line with my
> own impressions: beautiful smoothness, but slightly less dmax and
> slightly duller highlights. The K3 prints do have a more "alive"
> look, and I agree it's because of the bare paper showing between the
> dots. You know how much I love the BO luminance, and I was very
> pleasantly surprised with the K3 look - much better than most full ink
> systems I've seen. I have been convinced for a long time that the
> full ink "dotless" systems dulled the highlights.
>
> Also same for HPR - very nice, but lacks the nice "edge" that VFA has.
> I haven't tried the Ultrasmooth, but have heard many good reports.
>
> Have you used QTR with K3? If so, how do you like it compared to ABW?
>
> Regards,
> Clayton
>
> Info on black and white digital printing at
> http://www.cjcom.net/digiprnarts.htm
>
> 
>


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