Digital BW, The Print

Mike,

I'll be interested to hear what the color-inkset B&W print looks like 1 year
from now.  All of the B&Ws I've done have shifted color and look bad.
Also, with my 1160, the machine is apparently not stable enough hold a
profile.  One day I'd get great looking B&Ws, then another day there would
be visible cross-overs.  The high-end printers may at least avoid this
problem.

Paul
  -----Original Message-----
  From: Michael Kravit [mailto:michael.kravit@...]
  Sent: Sunday, March 10, 2002 9:44 AM
  To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
  Subject: Re: [Digital BW] Purple cast on B&W prints


  David,

  Yes and no. With a well profiled inkset you can get b/w prints with no
color cast and little of no crossover in the shadow areas.

  For example, I recently had Profile City make me a profile for the Epson
10k inks and H. Torchon. Yesterday I printed 30 16x20 images for a
photographer friend. The prints were made on my Epson 10000 using the
hextone color inks. They were perfectly neutral, no dots, no color cast. As
I mentioned, the key is a very clean profile.

  Regards,

  Michael J. Kravit
  Architect/Photographer
  Boca Raton, Florida
  www.kravit.net
    ----- Original Message -----
    From: David J. Bookbinder
    To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
    Sent: Sunday, March 10, 2002 12:19 PM
    Subject: RE: [Digital BW] Purple cast on B&W prints


    I have the same problem printing black and white prints using the
built-in
    profiles. When I use the Epson Colorlife profile, the images come out
    more-or-less black and white. My understanding is that to get true black
and
    white, you really need to use a black and white inkset (that replaces
the
    colored inks with shades of gray), such as any of those mentioned often
on
    this list, rather than the Epson colored inks.




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