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Re: My best settings for the 3800 / K3 on Photo Rag

2008-09-14 by rickbehl

Hi Igor,

I have not had a chance to make my measurements yet as I'm currently
on a short vacation. I'll be home on Monday so should be able to do
this by Tuesday. I'll try and post the graphs here once complete...

Rgds
Rick

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Igor Wesdorp"
<iwesdorp@...> wrote:
>
> Rick,
> 
> > I would be interested to know which problems these settings resolved
> for you as I have the same setup and am going through the same process
> at the moment...
> 
> When I first tried to print on Photo Rag with the 3800, using setting
> Media type/Velvet Fine Art Paper, the detail in the darkest part of
> the image (aprox. from rgb0 up to rgb 25) were terrible: See the graph
> at http://www.xs4all.nl/~hc6/3800/3800.htm 
> I was advised to use setting Media type/Ultrasmooth, and that gave me
> indeed a lot of improvement. And by using the sliders for Brightness,
> Contrast, Shadow Tonality and Highlight tonality, I was able to get
> very close to my target densities.
> 
> Did you do your measurements yet?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Igor
>

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