Digital BW, The Print

Thank you all for the responses.

Paul - I will watch the progress of your experiments with interest.

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Paul" <roark.paul@...> wrote:
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> Ernst Dinkla <edinkla@> wrote:
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> > > ... does the Epson ink suffer from (severe) metamerism?
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> ...
> > Paul is researching the Claria Black ink and I guess he would have 
> > observed "metamerism" mild or severe fast enough.
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> So far I have not seen any significant problem with metamerism.  The main difference I see between, for example, the Noritsu-Epson prints and the MIS EZ-Neutral prints is the degree of gloss in the shadows.  The MIS pigments cannot match the high gloss of the dye. 
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> I think the more color in a system, the more likely there will be metamerism.  I do suspect that the Noritsu-Epson inks contain color dyes, but they appear to hold their own very well against the MIS EZ-N inks, which are carbon with the least amount of color needed to tone them to neutral.  So far, so good with both approaches.
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> Paul
> www.PaulRoark.com
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