I have printed a step tablet consisting of 11 blocks of grey going from 0%k to 100%K.
I printed the step tablet onto to digital film using Matt ink through the Epson ABW driver from an Epson R3880.
The first issue I see are the warmth in the grey patches which I can only presume have come from the warmth of the Epson R3880 Inks but not sure if that will skew the results.
Having printed the step wedge, I now need to make a contact print in the darkroom.
My chosen paper is going to be Ilford MG Pearl.
Question:
What is the best way to make the contact print.
Do I ....
Put a 2 1/2 filter in the enlarger, make a test strip of the clear par of the digital film until I reach max black and then make a full contact at that time or have I go that wrong.
The enlarger is a diffusion enlarger if thats important.
When I get a proper contact print of the step tablet, I will then use that to map the values of the contact print to the original file and make a correction curve in Photoshop.
Ian
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