Digital BW, The Print

Greetings....
I've just joined this forum and hope to meet some of you in this
virtual space over the coming months.

I'm sure there are plenty of past messages providing introduction to
the basics.  However, rather than try and sift for the gems among
around 75K messages, I thought I'd first act to be directed to some
key files or posts that have been generally helpful to people.

FYI - I'm using a Nikon F3 with a number of different lenses and
accessories, a Nikon CoolScan V ED, a Win XP-based PC, the full
version of Photoshop 6, and an HP Photosmart 8250.  Although I've
gotten some properly toned photos in the past through my Visioneer
desktop scanner's film adapter, I know its resolution is limited and
I'm able to share my father's Nikon scanner.

However, these days I can't get prints with good monochrome grays to
save my life.  First I'd like to be directed to messages, files, or
anything else that might help me get a handle on the basics.

Hello Eberlin,

>I've just joined this forum and hope to meet some of you in this
>virtual space over the coming months.

Welcome to the forum.


>FYI - I'm using a Nikon F3 with a number of different lenses and
>accessories, a Nikon CoolScan V ED, a Win XP-based PC, the full
>version of Photoshop 6, and an HP Photosmart 8250. 
>However, these days I can't get prints with good monochrome grays to
>save my life.  First I'd like to be directed to messages, files, or
>anything else that might help me get a handle on the basics.

The link below has a number of articles on BW printing, including an
overview that may be helpful.  Getting good BW prints requires good BW
images, so it's a two-sided coin: the photoshop work and the printing
techniques.  This forum focuses mostly on the latter, but feel free to
ask any questions that come up.  There is lots of expertise here.

Regards,
Clayton


Info on black and white digital printing at    
http://www.cjcom.net/digiprnarts.htm

Thanks for your suggestion!

The thing that's driving me crazy is that I HAVE made prints on my HP
Photosmart printer that have "real" black and white gray tones, but
lately I can't make them come out that way to save my life.  It
appears I had better luck with my Visioneer flatbed scanner (with a
film scanner accessory) than with the much more sophisticated Nikon
CoolScan V ED film scanner I'm using now.  Hopefully I'll stumble on
the answer.


--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Clayton Jones"
<cj@...> wrote:

>
> Hello Eberlin,
> 
> >I've just joined this forum and hope to meet some of you in this
> >virtual space over the coming months.
> 
> Welcome to the forum.
> 
> 
> >FYI - I'm using a Nikon F3 with a number of different lenses and
> >accessories, a Nikon CoolScan V ED, a Win XP-based PC, the full
> >version of Photoshop 6, and an HP Photosmart 8250. 
> >However, these days I can't get prints with good monochrome grays to
> >save my life.  First I'd like to be directed to messages, files, or
> >anything else that might help me get a handle on the basics.
> 
> The link below has a number of articles on BW printing, including an
> overview that may be helpful.  Getting good BW prints requires good BW
> images, so it's a two-sided coin: the photoshop work and the printing
> techniques.  This forum focuses mostly on the latter, but feel free to
> ask any questions that come up.  There is lots of expertise here.
> 
> Regards,
> Clayton
> 
> 
> Info on black and white digital printing at    
> http://www.cjcom.net/digiprnarts.htm
>