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Re: Ink Separation

2017-03-06 by sanking@...

I am sorry to say, but there is magic bullet here. The warm tone you describe for your 3880 is absolutely normal for the ink set, and is not very different from that of the P800.

If you have poor color vision I would recommend staying away from toning as it would be very easy to create a color that would look odd to others.

Why not just accept the beauty of warm black? Througout the history of photograhy phtographic prints have rarely been neutral black in tone, in fact that is something more associated with photographs reproduced in books than with original work. Silver prints were nearly always toned for permanence, and the toning often shifted the silver image even more away from neutral. For examp, sepia, brown toning, selenium, gold toning all changed the actual color of silver gelaitn prints. And people love the warm brown color of platinum/palladium prints, and the unique color os gold toned salted paper and albumen prints, and so on and so on.

Sandy

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