Digital BW, The Print

To update my post of 09- 07 re: partly switching to digital:
<We did a test with a B&W neg outputted to a LighJet and were disappointed,
no deep black and overall an RC print feel to it.>
Realizing they did this print blind I gave them a fiberbase print of the
same neg to attempt to match (btw, I picked on purpose a very difficult
negative http://www.studiocharis.com/PagesHTML/Black&WhiteHTML/09_6197.html
<http://www.studiocharis.com/PagesHTML/Black&WhiteHTML/09_6197.html> ) . And
the great news (to me) is that A&I was able to match that print with
stunning accuracy. Blacks are very deep and the tonal range simply
remarkable. This would finally allow me the freedom to offer unlimited
retouching for my B&W portrait clients and still retain the quality I want,
even in very large prints.
I should get my 7000 quad inks test print done in two weeks.
This photographer's life is getting interesting all over again/

Benoît
http://studiocharis.com

Ps Martin thanks for the your kind words on the website...

Benoît,

That is good news on the LightJet prints. I would really like to get 
a look at one. Anyone like to contribute 31 to the print exchange?

Martin

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., Benoit Malphettes 
<Benoit@s...> wrote:
> To update my post of 09- 07 re: partly switching to digital:
> <We did a test with a B&W neg outputted to a LighJet and were 
disappointed,
> no deep black and overall an RC print feel to it.>
> Realizing they did this print blind I gave them a fiberbase print 
of the
> same neg to attempt to match (btw, I picked on purpose a very 
difficult
> negative 
http://www.studiocharis.com/PagesHTML/Black&WhiteHTML/09_6197.html
> 
<http://www.studiocharis.com/PagesHTML/Black&WhiteHTML/09_6197.html> )
 . And
> the great news (to me) is that A&I was able to match that print with
> stunning accuracy. Blacks are very deep and the tonal range simply
> remarkable. This would finally allow me the freedom to offer 
unlimited
> retouching for my B&W portrait clients and still retain the quality 
I want,

> even in very large prints.
> I should get my 7000 quad inks test print done in two weeks.
> This photographer's life is getting interesting all over again/
> 
> Benoît
> http://studiocharis.com
> 
> Ps Martin thanks for the your kind words on the website...