Digital BW, The Print

Have you guys gone to the MIS site lately to make sure you have the latest
curves for your printer and operating system, and are you aware that
different printers require different driver settings?

Just checking on the basics first.

Todd

> Piotr, 
> 
> Solarizing is a good way to describe it. Do you have the same problem
> with your step test with the clumping of the tones in the shadows? That
> must be the problem. If I could  produce a nice even transition from 0%
> to 100% I will bet the shadows will take care of them self's.
> 
> Steve
> 
> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., "piotrjanowski" <
> piotr.janowski@a...> wrote:
>> steven0356  wrote:
>> They seem to 
>>> have an unreal blotchy look to them.
>> 
>> 
>> Steve, 
>> 
>> I am experiencing exactly the same problem. It happens in the shadow
>> areas (80%-up). It looks almost like a solarizing effect.
>> I posted a message about that  a month ago. Since then I didn't find
>> a solution. I checked step by step all my settings according to Pauls
>> workflow, I am using a Nikon 4000 scanner and I don't see those
>> problems on the monitor when I blow up the picture.(so it is rather
>> not a scanning problem). I am absolutely sure that it is something
>> that I am doing wrong here, since so many people a very happy with
>> the set. 
>> The problem is I don't know what. I was using the Original MIS set
>> before and apart that it was a bit too warm for me I had never
>> experienced those things then. I really love the Neutral tone of the
>> VM set and I don't want to go back but this shadow problem is making
>> my nights sleepless.
>> I remember that a few months ago someone on this list was describing
>> a similar problem but I couldn't find his message on the archives.
>> Any help or suggestions from the listmembers are appreciated.
>> Steve let me know when You solve the problem,
>> 
>> Piotr Janowski
>> Greeting to everybody from Warsaw, Poland