Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, C D Tobie <CDTobie@...> wrote:

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> Right. But we have devices costing more than a small car in our optics  
> lab, and they don't make it to 3.0 either, they just make it a bit  
> further beyond 2.5... which is why I said impossible or expensive,  
> depending on the spec...
> 


Ok, that answers that question then, I was afraid that it might not be possible with current technologies to produce something that costs less than a house that can measure this sort of density. I know that what I'm seeing is really just bouncing along the noise floor of the spectros but it is still pretty impressive. Wish I had a light trap that used to be used for black calibration on some of the older devices to see what it measured.

And this is simply print, dry, measure and black down into the noise floor of the spectro.

Oddly it doesn't do very well on the Hawk Mountain papers. ALl three inks only had about an L=18-20, two of the inks were Claria and the dye ink that Ink Republic ships with their CIS. Guess it must be the paper, I'll have to get a few other "fine art" papers to try before I switch to a new pigment/dye hybrid that I need to try.