Digital BW, The Print

Frank,

"Not being a techie", he said! Wow... that's pretty thorough, in my
book, more than enough to keep me off the streets and down to work. I
doubt that I'll be able to run all those tests (I'll be using it
mainly for b/w, using Paul Roark's method) and as for color, just
snapshots for now.

But thank you very much, that's exactly what I was looking for. Much
appreciated!

Paul

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Frank Jay
<frankjay02@...> wrote:
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> OOPS...Not being  a techie I tested it by printing the prints I use
for test prints that I made with PS....swatches of colors, three
different skin tones (caucasian, african american, asian). Then
chnaged out the inks to the 3mK's I printed the 100 step gray scale
image from the website, then the black and white target file. Using
the QTR for BW. I also printed 3 full color prints. I then printed
color using the above prints but without the GO and PK.
>    
>   I compared all the color prints to my original test prints printed
as a Cprint from a lab.
>   Then used a magnifying glass to check for marks, scratches, pizza
wheels  etc. I also used the magnifier to read the 100 step chart and
found that blocks 99 and 100 were indistinguishable to my eye. I also
used the same paper for all the tests...Epson Enhanced Matte. I also
compared the prints using a 1000W daylight bulb. I had one only
beacuse I teach a hydroponics course and that is the light we use. 
>    
>   I did notice that when I used it the first few color prints there
was a 1/4" round drop of "glop" about a 1/2" from the end of the 8x10
print.
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>   This of course is not a high tech method using meters and such but
all the comparisons to Cprints for color matching came out fine and
the BW work, to me, was excellent. Best I have seen from an inkjet and
I am happy not to have to set up a wet darkroom again. The asian skin
(my wife's) came out a bit too yellow, but skin tone is very hard to
duplicate exactly. If I were printing portraits I would run some test
4x6's and tweak a bit.  
>    
>   I hope this helps somewhat
>   Frank
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