Yahoo Groups archive

Digital BW, The Print

Index last updated: 2026-04-28 22:56 UTC

Message

Re: Gen4 and B&W

2002-05-24 by Michael A. Schwarz

>Right, thanks for the feedback.  A couple more questions if you don't 
>mind.  (please bear with me, I am new to this and promise I won't be 
>asking such seemingly daft questions in another months time or so!)
>
>1 - If I was getting 'acceptable' prints from my colour dye set, why 
>would I not be equally as happy with the G4 set?  Will something else 
>be different?  Is 'metamerism'a bigger issue in B&W?

Significant metamarism using GEN4 color inkset to print B&W is what 
killed it for me.  I got better results colorwise using just the black 
ink, but there was very little range and too much grain. 


Michael A. Schwarz
Corporate, Editorial and Documentary Photojournalism
www.michaelschwarz.com
ms@...

Attachments

Move to quarantaine

This moves the raw source file on disk only. The archive index is not changed automatically, so you still need to run a manual refresh afterward.