Digital BW, The Print

I asked the original question about contact prints and with the help 
of the group and some tinkering have been able to produce more than 
statisfactory contacts with a HP Scanjet and PS7.  My "workflow" is:

Put the negatives in their plastic holder in the scanjet with a sheet 
of white paper on top and after the prescan, crop, set the resolution 
to 300, grayscale, and fiddle with the middle slider until the 
prescan gets close to looking like negs on a lightbox.  (A plate of 
glass or heavy white board would have kept them flat.)

Scan into PS, invert.  Then levels to use the middle slider to adjust 
the image.  Then a layer in overlay blend mode at 100% opacity to add 
density to the image.  Burn where necessary and sharpen.

I printed on EAM with a 1200 using the Roark VM curves set to mw.

The contacts are far from perfect, but certainly serve their 
purpose.  One advantage of digital contacts is that you have some 
control over individual shots.  The whole thing took less time to do 
than to describe.

Steve Kobrin