Digital BW, The Print

By coincidence, this weekend I have been working to change my 2100/QTR 
windows/UT3D from 1440 super resolution to 2880 resolution. I was doing 
so in order see if could get rid of some minor (but once you've seen it 
annoying) horizontal banding and some coarseness in the midtones. This 
seems to work out fine.

And as side effect my Dmax improved as well a bit. But by no means to a 
sub-L=15 range. I'm now at L= 15.9-16.2. I'm using Epson Enhanced Matte 
(did not try on Photo Rag yet). Is it the difference in paper?  Or 
should I get rid of the interprinting with LK that I still do (as a 
heritage of the 1440 resolution curves)? What should be achievable on 
EEM?

Joost

P.S. What is actually the formula to convert L-values to density? I 
seem to be unable to find this.


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 In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Paul Roark" 
<paul.roark@...> wrote:
>
> Tom,
> 
>  
> 
> I'm getting L 14.8 - 14.95 on Premier Art's Matte BW, using Eboni in 
a 2200,
> QTR at 2880, ink load 65, no under-printing (i.e., no overlap or the 
llike)
> It'll be interesting to see if these dmax figures increase over 
night - they
> usually do.
> 
>