Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "mediaworks2003" 
<centralny121@h...> wrote:
> I just got the MIS UT inks and they actually produce a neutral B&W, 
> however, the prints I am getting are high contrast, too light and 
> media gray where they should be close to dark gray. I have tried 
> Paul's UT workflow and curves and, using no curves.

Hi Bill, I can tell about my experiences as I have gone through the 
same experiences in the last 2-3 days: My first UT prints looked 
awful. It didn't become necessarily visible with nature scenes etc, 
but I printed dozens of portraits, group shots, and the skin tones 
looked really awful, as if the persons were very ill :-)

So I developed and tweaked a "correction curve" that I lay over the 
images before applying Paul's UT curves and after a lot of printing 
and tweaking I finally have managed to get consistent and very nice 
looking prints with neutral and slightly warm prints. For C+3 I 
haven't checked yet, I don't like this tone so far anyway, but I am 
happy to get now prints that look like very fine silver prints and 
are better than anything I have ever seen out of the 1160.

Actually I must say that it is not 1 but 2 curves. After finishing 
the first one I realized that the shadows have become to light so I 
applied a second curve.  

This is not a problem however because while I apply the first curve 
to all prints I have tweaked the second curve to adapt to different 
papers. One for archival matte, one for semigloss and I will try 
other papers. Probably someone who knows a 
little bit about math on the PC could easily combine the 2 curves 
into one. I just dont have time to check that out.

If someone is interested I could send him/ her the curves - also in 
order to know if it works for other setups than my own.

regards Bernie