Digital BW, The Print

Clayton,

I will let Paul elaborate on the LAB coordinates question. But, when I read Paul's posts (and others' too), I get excited when the B coordinates remain in the 1 to 3 range. To my eyes this range appears quite neutral. B coordinates are positive=yellow, and negative=blue. I rarely base my prints on B only. A coordinates are positive=red, and negative=green. A absolutely hate A values anywhere in the negative range, prefering A to be above +1 at all densities.

My most prefered print hue is A going from +5 in shadows to +1 in highlights. While B should hover in the +3 to +1 across the entire shadows to highlight densities. With such a set up, provided the paper white is slight +A, and slight -B gives beautiful print tones IMO. Epson EEF can meet these conditions very well.

Let me know if you want me to send you a print of such a set up with my Epson 4000 custom ink set up.

Shilesh

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "ClaytonJ" <cj@...> wrote:
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> Hello Paul,
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> > I just ran some Black Only on the 1400 with Eboni.  Briefly, the Gen. Alise Natural turned in an excellent performance.  I think it's the lowest Lab B rise I've seen with 100% carbon, going from Lab B = 1 to 3, then diving to -0.5 at 100%. 
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> Wonderful...but can you translate this into conversational English?  I'm not conversant with the LAB terms and really don't know what it's saying.  
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> >At 100% I'm getting Lab L in the 14's, with the lowest being 14.1.  >This is mid-1.70's dmax.  
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> Thanks very much.  If you can nail down an exact Dmax value I'll add it to my chart.
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> Yes indeed.  Do you know of any other non-OBA paper with this kind of Dmax?  I've been using Soft Textured Art.  It's beautiful stuff but the Dmax with K3 is 1.62, good but not great.  And even at that it's one of the best I've found among natural papers.  Many are in the 1.5's, so I was happy to find it.  But this stuff blows everything else out of the water and it's less inexpensive as well. Imahappycamper <g>.
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