Digital BW, The Print

Douglas meeuwsen wrote:

> hello, I am on a quest to get my BW prints to be like what I remember
> our old darkroom prints  looking and feeling like (it's been almost
> thirty years since!)
>
IMHO, you can't make inkjet prints look like darkroom prints, nor should 
you try. Inkjet is an entirely new media, and has its own look, and its 
own strengths and weaknesses. In that respect, it's no different, no 
better, than platinum, albumen, silver gelatin, salt, cyanotype, or any 
of the other alternative ways to make a print.

Silver gelatin prints excel at the 
air-dried-glossy-fiber-print-high-Dmax look. Inkjet prints excel at the 
smooth-linear-even-tonality-matte-paper look.

If you want the darkroom look, head for the darkroom.
--
Bruce Watson