Digital BW, The Print

Bert,

I have a fair number of people asking me what to buy to get into B&W
printing.  In the past, the 1160 was the  standard, but with it's demise,
there is a bit of a gap.  The 1280s are great, but not cheap.

MIS believes that refurbished 1270s and 870s (which hopefully will use the
same variable-tone control curves) are the best deals now.  Frankly,
however, I've not been satisfied with the curves for those machines.

So, MIS is sending me an 870 tomorrow.  I'll refine the MIS VM curves for
that platform -- it's much easier to do so in-house.  Assuming that the "no
color adjustment" setting makes these curves cross-platform, the curves I
can do in-house will then be good for the 1270 and 870, whether on PC or
Mac.

With the caveat that there are several assumptions above, what we are trying
to do is set up the 1270/870 as a platform that is affordable and can put
out great MIS VM  and VM-Sepia prints.  I suspect I'll also do an Epson FS
workflow for the platform.  So, at this point I am recommending the 1270 and
870 with MIS Vm inks (see www.inksupply.com).  Be patient, however, about
the quality of the existing control curves.  I'll be upgrading them ASAP.

Paul
http://www.PaulRoark.com



_________________________________
  -----Original Message-----
  From: bertsalzman [mailto:bwsalzman@...]
  Sent: Tuesday, May 07, 2002 8:16 AM
  To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
  Subject: Re: [Digital BW] Simply Simply please?


  ---
  Dear Paul,
  It is exactly what I wanted to hear ...Thank you for your kind
  and factual response... Now..where can I purchase the equipment that
  you suggested?
  Gratefully
  Bert Salzman
  In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., "Paul Roark" <paul.roark@v...>
  wrote:
  > Bert,
  >
  > You wrote:
  >
  > >...What the best paper and the correct setting on my
  > >Epson stylus color 740 printer that will give me good [B&W]
  > >prints considering the limitations of the equipment...
  >
  > I tried for some time to get good B&W prints from color inksets, and
  > ultimately gave up.  That is why most of us on this list use one of the
  > "quad" inkset solutions.
  >
  > I recently received a wedding invitation that used one of my early B&W
  > prints that had been done with a color inkset.  I thought it looked
really
  > good when I shipped it a couple of years ago.  However, even though it
had
  > been in dark storage, I was embarrassed that my name was on the back of
the
  > card I received.  Although the sender seemed to think the card was good
  > enough for a wedding invitation, I was acutely aware of color tints and
  > crossovers.
  >
  > I know this is probably not what you wanted to hear, but if want to
avoid a
  > lot of trouble and get good B&W prints, I'd recommend a quad inkset
approach
  > with a printer that is well-supported by the various workflows that are
used
  > here.
  >
  > Paul
  > http://www.PaulRoark.com



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