Digital BW, The Print

It could be they just printed it badly.
Mark

On Dec 4, 2006, at 9:20 AM, Igor Wesdorp wrote:

> Hello.
>
> I use to make prints  with UT-FS on Photo Rag. However, lately I
> needed a large format print that I could not do myself at home, so I
> had it printed by a print service with an Epson 9800 and K3 on
> PhotoRag (300 gr this time. At home I use the 188 gr).
>
> I'm not too pleased with the result: the UT-FS gives me a Dmax of ca
> 1.74. The K3 did only 1.64. Furthermore the graph of the K3 showed a
> nasty bump in the shadows, it wasn't smooth.
>
> (Btw, I'm sure they didn't accidentally make my prints with Photo
> Black: I know what that looks like: even more muddy).
>
> I'd like to know:
>
> 1. Is it normal for K3 to have such a low Dmax? (and a bump?)
>
> 2. Can it be that when switching from Photo Black (which they use
> normally over there)to Matte black the printer wasn't purged (or not
> well enough)? Or is this an automatic routine that always works out  
> fine?
>
> Thanks,
>
> I g o r
>
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