Digital BW, The Print

Thanks, Paul... looks like l deleted my original post, but it was in your reply. I was going to reword it before anyone replied but I didn't act quickly enough.

At any rate, I did run a nozzle check, and got a perfect pattern. I'll get working on a new curve per your instructions and also the QTR manual.

What's interesting is that another photograph printed out just fine. It has some shadows too but they were not colorized.

Thanks for your help, as always.

Paul

Thanks for the suggestion, Les. I tried that but it didn't help. Looks like I'll have to bite the bullet and create a new profile.

Paul

This is an old thread, I hope it's still viable.

For those who are new, I deleted my original post because I wanted to re-word it, but before I was able to post a new one, Paul jumped in with an answer. He's too efficient! But he quoted my OP and  you can see how this thread got started.

Anyway, the reason I didn't follow up on his suggestions was because somehow the solarization got cleared up. But now it's back, and I tried the suggestions in the second paragraph. Here's what I got:

percent      Calibration Mode      21 step file
0                   255                         255
5                   150                         144
10                 102                           98
15                  67                            67
20                  62                            69
25                  45                            44
30                  33                            37
35                  37                            35
40                  35                            35
45                  35                            32

After that, they both level off and stay in the mid to low 30's all the way to black.

Looks pretty good to my unpracticed eye. It was hard to get a definite reading in each patch, I tried to put the eye dropper in the middle of each one. But throughout each patch there was quite a spread.

If these figures are ok, here's a couple of other things I've noticed:

1) If I choose the BO driver, I get no solarization, but the the black is not really as punchy as with my old 3MK-1800 setup. I certainly do like the 1400 better than my clog-prone 1800.

2) This may be more significant: the prints that are solarized come from scans of b/w negatives, both 35mm and 6x6. Prints from b/w conversion from a digital color file are ok. Granted, I've not done a lot of printing from scanned b/w negs lately, perhaps not enough to be significant. But still, maybe I'm scanning my b/w negs incorrectly. I'm using an Epson 4490. I have Color Management turned off.

Thanks all,

Paul