Digital BW, The Print

Has anyone has problems with their quad tone prints looking grainy?  I'm working from 
4x5 using an Imacon Flextight, started using Photoshop CS and am scanning in color 16 
bit and they look terrible.

Suggestions?

antmagrat wrote:

> Has anyone has problems with their quad tone prints looking grainy?  I'm working from 
> 4x5 using an Imacon Flextight, started using Photoshop CS and am scanning in color 16 
> bit and they look terrible.
> 
> Suggestions?

Taking out the default sharpening in the Imacon software by 
applying -120 in the sharpener setting ?

Ernst

If smooth on-screen tonal transitions that print with dot-sized 
harsh breaks in tone are what  you're seeing your paper may be 
too dry. Raise the humidity.

amadou diallo

Consider separating issues due to the scan from issues due to the print. For example, 
if you made a smooth ramp (0-100%) in photoshop and printed it, does it still look 
grainy?
If it's a print problem, look at profiles, nozzles, ink feed etc to all work as they 
should.
If it's a scan problem, maybe you are using Imacon defaults meant for low ISO 
chromes.  Usually that would be 250 in the "texture" settings. Try 0 before you turn it 
off completely; there is good reason to have some sharpening in there. Wisdom from 
Imacon users is to use a 2 stage sharpening: Let the Imacon driver do some "basic" 
amount that only compensates for sharpness lost by the optics and CCD etc, and then 
do the rest in Photoshop depending on the use of the file.

Antonis



--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "antmagrat" <margaret-
stratton@u...> wrote:
> Has anyone has problems with their quad tone prints looking grainy?  I'm working 
from 
> 4x5 using an Imacon Flextight, started using Photoshop CS and am scanning in 
color 16 

> bit and they look terrible.
> 
> Suggestions?