Kodak Printer Accessories - Manual

There are alternative photographic printing techniques available to produce black-and-white prints from film or
digital files. In addition, there are a number of 'non-photographic' printing technologies that give you even more
ways to make black-and-white prints—inkjet printers, thermal printers, commercial offset, and electrophotography, to
name but a few.
Below we focus on both inkjet and photographic printing techniques. Which you choose will depend on your
personal preference and the application for which the print is being used.
Printing Black-and-White Images Without
KODAK Black-and-White Papers
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This photographic-quality
paper is designed for
professionals to meet their
demanding standards.
• Available in Glossy (F) and
Lustre (E) surfaces in roll
and sheet formats
• Excellent compatibility with
dye- and pigment-based
inkjet printers
• Custom ICC profiles for popular CANON and EPSON
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With inkjet printers, the printheads spray droplets of
CMYK ink onto the paper to create the image. For best
black-and-white results, use a printer that has additional
black and gray ink cartridges or several tones of black.
This eliminates the color bias that you could encounter
with printers that make up shades of gray from colored
CMYK inks.
Inkjet printing eliminates the need to use a darkroom
and photographic chemicals, and offers many printing
options including the potential to make large prints
(limited by the capacity of your printer) on papers with a
variety of surfaces.
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You have two options for making black-
and-white prints using color photographic
negative papers:
• Go to a Pro Lab and ask for their
B&W Printing Service using KODAK
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• Print and process in your own studio. (Note: This
media requires RA-4 processing; it is usually not a
convenient option for home darkroom users.)
Digital Printing of Image Files
If you will be making your prints with a digital printer,
scan your negatives to file. To optimize print quality,
convert your files to grayscale.
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Papers and other KODAK Color Negative Papers with
many types of digital printers. For starting values for a
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Optical Printing of Black-and-White Negatives
You can also print black-and-white negatives onto
ENDURA Papers.
Three exposing methods provide excellent results:
• Put a piece of unexposed, processed (D-min) KODAK
PROFESSIONAL PORTRA Film in the exposing beam
along with the filters you normally use to print color
negatives.
• Simulate a piece of film D-min by adding CC35M and
CC65Y filtration to the filtration that you use to print
color negatives.
• Use a starting filter pack of 80M + 110Y to simulate
the 45M + 45Y of the film D-min .
Viewing
We recommend viewing your prints under final display
lighting conditions. The color quality of your viewing
light can contribute to hue variations (illuminant
sensitivity). This phenomenon is called metamerism-
colors look the same under one type of lighting (e.g.
tungsten), but look different under a different type of
lighting (e.g. fluorescent). In other words, your black-
and-white prints may look neutral under one kind of
lighting but have an undesirable tint under another.
Use a light source such as daylight, tungsten, or
tungsten-halogen/quartz-halogen. These sources provide
continuous frequency of energy in the visible spectrum
and will result in a neutral rendering of the image.
Average viewing conditions use a light source with a
color temperature of 5000 ± 1000 K, a Color Rendering
Index (CRI) of 85 to 100, and an illuminance of at least
50 footcandles (538 lux).
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For photographers who continue to prefer traditional
black-and-white papers, there are still some specialized
manufacturers who offer both resin-coated (RC) and
fiber-base media. We recommend contacting your local
photo reseller.
Imaging Solutions
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