Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/10/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]While walking the dogs, I figured out why digital neg prints come out "better" from the same printer without additional tweaking: on an inkjet print, in fact it's usually the shadow details that need work. So while a good printer has multiple gray+black (e.g. the Z3100 has photo black, light gray and gray, in addition to matt black), it's still relying on just gray+black to give all the tones. However, on a digital neg,, first of all, the shadow now becomes highlight, which is much easier to print, and second, with the precision digital neg process, you are printing with color inks (all red in my case). So shadow no longer clumps up and need tweaking! Just make a test print on another image. The highlights just glow on the fiber paper... ahhh....I bought Dan Burkholder's book probably 5+ years ago. I'm glad I finally tried the process... On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 4:23 AM, Richard Man <richard at imagecraft.com> wrote: > http://www.5pmlight.com/?p=1605 > > -- > // richard <http://www.imagecraft.com/> > // icc blog: <http://imagecraft.wordpress.com> > // photo blog: <http://www.5pmlight.com> > [ For technical support on ImageCraft products, please include all previous > replies in your msgs. ] > > -- // richard <http://www.imagecraft.com/> // icc blog: <http://imagecraft.wordpress.com> // photo blog: <http://www.5pmlight.com> [ For technical support on ImageCraft products, please include all previous replies in your msgs. ]