Digital BW, The Print

Hi folks,

I have been working for the past three days with Paul Roark's curves 
for the mis-vm ink set on an epson 1280. I have been trying to avoid 
banding, posterizing and getting the rich black with details that I 
got with the epson inks.

I do not understand how these things work, I guess, because I still 
have posterized prints and my blacks are no where near as deep as the 
epson color ink set.

I am printing on epson heavy weight matte paper and I have tried both 
the medium warm curve and the cool curve.

Straight off the net, the cool curve gave me all of the detail but 
the print was flat. At no point did I reach a true black.

I then tried the warm tone and got the same effect. No true black anywhere.

I then tried an adjustment to the rbg channel to increase the 
contrast slightly and pulled one point on the curve from an input of 
48 to an output of 27.

The warm curve now gives me a few areas of dark dark grey, and almost 
black. It also posterized the dark greys.

Can anyone help me to get this worked out?

Matt

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