Digital BW, The Print

Clayton,

Thank you. Yes it has been a while since the BO days. But, I still fire up the occasional BO print on my 4000; one of the best ever printer for the technique in my opinion. It gives very nice selenium-likle tones with Entrada papers.

Happy New Year. And give Steve Karrafylakis my best if you see him. He and I had done a few one-on-one print exchanges a while back.

Shilesh

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "ClaytonJ" <cj@...> wrote:
>
> Hello Shilesh,
> 
> Nice to hear from you, it's been a long time since the old BO print exchange days.
> 
> > The "cool ink tones" were achived with what settings? Using ABW?
> 
> Yes, the 2400 is all I have right now, not using any Eboni-based inks.
> I have a default ABW setting of 2,8 that I use for the tests.  On EEM   
> and VFA this produces a slightly warm neutralish tone that is similar to what Eboni produces and forms a base line for my comparisons.
> 
> With that setting these papers produced cooler tones.  I had to warm it up a bit to nudge it back.  The degree of coolness also varied with the ink load (I do two test prints, at -0% and -5% ink load, to see which has better dmax).  The -0% version was cooler than the -5% one.  It's not unusual to see a tonal difference with different ink loads, but I was surprised by the degree of difference.  This paper really is different.  Hard to explain, but it just reacts differently than anything else I've tried.  
> 
> Regards,
> Clayton
> 
> 
> Info on black and white digital printing at    
> http://www.cjcom.net/digiprnarts.htm
> I-Trak 2.1   http://www.cjcom.net/itrak.htm
>