Digital BW, The Print

Hi Guy's,

Thanks to your kindly natures I'm doing OK on my quad quest.... but 
I've a quick question (sorry)

To get my images even better on my chosen papers I need to manipulate 
the 95% step on my step wedge to being slightly lighter to seperate 
it from 100%.

My question is this. Do I adjust all curves or is there a spacific 
combanation of curve that controls this area of ink output? A speedy 
answer for a frustrated and impatient apprentice would be appreciated

Cheers for now...

Damian

Damian asked:

>[snip] To get my images even better on my chosen papers I need to 
>manipulate the 95% step on my step wedge to being slightly lighter 
>to seperate it from 100%.
>
>My question is this. Do I adjust all curves or is there a spacific 
>combanation of curve that controls this area of ink output? A speedy 
>answer for a frustrated and impatient apprentice would be 
>appreciated [snip]

I don't know, but when I printed the step test with each of the four 
curves for my (different) ink set (VM Sepia-Neutral) on an 1160 from 
a Mac, I mistakenly printed the step test once without any curve at 
all. The result was a relatively light print, which fell in between 
the second and third curve as far as warmth goes, and better 
separation between the last two steps (without blurring the 
distinction between the first two steps).

Sam

Sam McCandless            samcc@...

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> Hi Guy's,
>
> Thanks to your kindly natures I'm doing OK on my quad quest.... but
> I've a quick question (sorry)
>
> To get my images even better on my chosen papers I need to manipulate
> the 95% step on my step wedge to being slightly lighter to seperate
> it from 100%.
>
> My question is this. Do I adjust all curves or is there a spacific
> combanation of curve that controls this area of ink output? A speedy
> answer for a frustrated and impatient apprentice would be appreciated
>
> Cheers for now...


Damian,

For this case I would suggest either do a seperate curve to increase
contrast in that narrow range or edit the RGB curve set by making an
adjustment to combined RGB curve rather than to each R, G and B curve
seperately.


Martin Wesley

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