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by Mike McNamee Published 01/08/2012

Real Prints

We completed our monochrome toning trials after the initial testing of the Innova and so we went back and took a more detailed look armed with our new knowledge!

In terms of monochrome you can take your choice, the paper tone pushed the near-neutrals just a tinny amount to the right but only by about 1 Lab point - in other words barely detectable by eye. That being the case any tone values that you apply via the ABW driver will be recreated almost exactly.

Next we made some nature prints using Jon Ashton's newly emerged damselfly. Prints were made on the Innova and, for comparison, we made prints using a cool-toned, heavily brightened paper. The difference was quite striking. The brightened paper rendered the background quite a cool blue, an additional 8 points over the starting position, the Innova rendered it accurately a just a little blue. The brightened paper

did create a crisp looking print but it was when we trial mounted it under a cream window matte that the issues arose. Whereas the Innova looked delightful under the cream surround the brightened paper looked a dirty grey, really rather ugly. This is not a surprise - brightened papers in general should be kept well away from cream, salon-style mounts, they don't play together at all well!

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