Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Michael T.
Murphy" <uriel_bear@...> wrote:
>
> I ordered from the link that Paul provided. If you would like some
glycerine to do testing for now I will be glad to send you a small
bottle.>

Thanks, Mike. I'm in Toronto so I've been looking for a local
glycerine supplier and I just found one. I think I'm going to order 1
liter because I need enough glycerine to make flushing liquid, and to
mix the Carbon-6 inks.

> I will post a cleaned-up and documented spreadsheet next week. In
the meantime let me know if you want a copy to use for mixing and I
will send one.> 

I'll watch for the posted spreadsheet. Now that I've found a local
glycerine supplier, I may speed up my transition to Carbon-6. I just
need to make a bunch of UT7 prints for a show I'm doing in May / June
and after that I'll have some time to switch over.

> I have an i1 spectrophotometer.  I created a curve for EEM in QTR
using the 21 step ramp and 6 channels. It is fairly smooth, though I
have not had a chance to validate it using the 51 step ramp yet.>

That's just it; I don't have a spectrophotometer. I understand some
people can make good profiles with scanners but I'm not one of them. I
won't be in a position to print any Carbon-6 for about month but I'll
try your EEM QTR profile at that time. I've found that Premier Smooth
B&W works very well with the EEM QTR profile.

> I haven't had a lot of time with the inks. For the last couple of
days I have been printing a variety of 22x26 inch or larger images to
get a feel for the ink set. I have been using some older scanned 6x7
color negatives and slides mixed to B&W, scans of 645 B&W film, and
digital capture converted to greyscale.  

I've just moved from 4x5 to a Nikon D2x. It's been quite a change! But
so far I'm pleased with how it's going. I haven't yet printed anything
larger than 5x7 so I'm curious to see where my digital files start to
fall apart :)

Mark