Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/09/07

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Help printing scanned Leica negatives!
From: Frank Conley <frankconley@yahoo.com>
Date: Tue, 7 Sep 1999 08:45:15 -0700 (PDT)

The irony of using a Leica camera and lens to expose a negative, and
then use an ink-jet printer to make the print!  :)

- --- Dan Post <dwpost@email.msn.com> wrote:
> Okay- the only on topic thing here is that I am
> using a Leica negative....
> I am testing a Scan Multi for a friend, and the
> screen images are super, no
> problem, and seem 'perfect'- save for those
> (*@$^#(&* dust spots!
> When I try to print the image, there are areas, like
> shadows and the
> subject's hair, that look 'blotchy', like a broad
> brush was used and there
> is no detail whatsoever.
> I scanned into both Microsoft Photo Editor, and
> Photoshop, and got the same
> result on the Photo 700, so I am inclined to think I
> am overlooking
> something in the print setup. I am using the same
> printer settings that I
> used for prints scanned with the flatbed, but the
> output is quite different.
> It is as if the image is peing printed with a
> limited palette.
> Any help would be grteatly appreciated!
> Dan
> 
> 
> 
> 

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