Digital BW, The Print

Paul,

Supposedly the 10k dyes are 26 year dyes. Hannemuhle claim longer, somewhere around 50 years. The 10k is also able to use pigments.
I will send you a step wedge for testing.

Regards,

Michael J. Kravit
Architect/Photographer
Boca Raton, Florida
www.kravit.net
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Paul Roark 
  To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com 
  Sent: Sunday, March 10, 2002 7:47 PM
  Subject: RE: [Digital BW] Purple cast on B&W prints


  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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