Digital BW, The Print

I look at the issue the same way Joost does.

I think test strips in digital are still valid.

gar

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On 4/24/08 at 12:11 PM Joost Horsten wrote:

>My personal experience, for what it's worth (one and a half year of 
>digital B&W printing), is that (with a well calibrated system and 
>paper that I'm familiar with) I can get close enough for a good print 
>of a "normal" image. But if "good" is not good enough or with an 
>image that is very demanding for either very dark or very light tones 
>I need some (2-6) iterations to get it right. At certain moments I 
>think I face the limit that in the end a monitor is a light emitting 
>image, while a photo is light reflecting.
>
>Joost
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>--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Louis de Stoutz 
><loudest@...> wrote:
>>
>> Hi folks!
>> 
>> This is a follow-up question to my monitor question (thanks for the 
>> first replies):
>> 
>> When I am in the darkroom, I print many test-strips to get what I 
>want.
>> Is this being done in digital B&W too? Saving ink and paper (and 
>time) 
>> certainly prevents from printing too many full test-pictures. Or 
>does 
>> WYSIWYG with a reasonable monitor get you close enough to the final 
>print?
>> 
>> (You may guess my a priori "conclusion": maybe its no use to get 
>the 
>> absolutely best monitor, since one has to do test prints anyway...)
>> 
>> And by the way, a huge "Thank You" to all the very experienced B&W 
>> workers amongst you for your fantastic contributions!
>> 
>> Louis
>>
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