Digital BW, The Print

Hello Ginny,

>...when doing Tri-X development times/ASA calibration on my
>Pentax 6X7.

Warms my heart! <g>.  The P67 was my primary picture machine for
years (superb lenses), and good old wonderful Tri-X the film of
choice.  What a great combination.  I sort of miss it (just temporary
nostalgia <g>), but I got tired of hauling heavy gear around (getting
older and have accumulated some back and shoulder problems).  The
carbon fiber tripod is a great invention!


>...with my older Epson printers, I always had excellent results
>letting the printer driver control the output rather than PS. 
>I was very pleased with how easy it was. 

It still can be with the 2400 and ABW.  Please have a look at the 2400
workflow article (#9) at the web link below.  It produces very fine
results without requiring a densitometer and icc curves.  As for
paper, Epson's Velvet Fine Art (VFA) works beautifully with the K3
inks.  Definitely worth trying a box.  Another favorite of mine for K3
is Merlin Natural from Hawk Mtn (not as good dmax as VFA, but a
beautiful long scale that can produce a platinum look with a variety
of convincing color tones - really pretty).   I also use Dourian (same
as PhotoRag), Condor BW, and Aurora Art - just depends on the image.

I hope this helps.

Regards,
Clayton


Info on black and white digital printing at    
http://www.cjcom.net/digiprnarts.htm