Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/05/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Bill, Printing B&W with a color printer will not give you very good results at all. You need to use a printer that has quad-tone inks, and the appropriate software. Either MIS with a "curves" workflow, or for a more turn-key solution, www.inkjetmall.com and use the Piezo system. The prints are in fact better than you can achieve in a chemical darkroom. Austin > I shoot 35 and MF slides and Reala. I quit color printing in my darkroom > for good a year ago. However, I shot a roll of TCN 400 with the M3 last > weekend and dropped it off at a good lab to pe printed on silver > paper. The > prints were superb. Black blacks and full tonal range are a surprise to me > in machine prints. I have tried for hours to equal them with PS7, a Nikon > LS4000 scanner and an Epson 3200, printing on an Epson 1270 trying > different modes and papers. Not even close... I'm glad I kept my Valoy. I > have had good results with b&w sent to a lab for printing on the Lightjet > 5000. Does anyone have a solution for good quality b&w on the 1270? > > Bill Lawlor - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html