Digital BW, The Print

Antonis:  Right.  Too bad the "black only" is just dotty enough that 
you can see it, or that's precisely what I'd use. 

I guess it will be MIS VM something or other pretty soon.  Would 
somebody please post a summary of the most successful VM ink and 
curve combinations for the 1280?

I've been using up the color inks printing test prints.  Last night I 
found that Norman Koren's color settings worked pretty well for not 
only color, but were better for B&W than his B&W settings (on a 1280, 
his were done on a 1270).  There's still the green-magenta shift, but 
not as much.  OK for showing friends, not quite good enough to hang 
on the wall.

--Peter

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., "antonisphoto" 
<antonisphoto@y...> wrote:
> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., "kd7mw" <pklein@2...> 
wrote:
> ........
> 
> > Eventually I'll probably just get the MIS VM inks, but right now 
I 
> > want to use up the inks I already have, and I have some color I 
want 
> > to do.  If I could just use color inks for everything, that would 
be 
> > great, but I really don't want to buy $400 calibration software 
and 
> > equipment
> 
> 
> Peter,
> 
> I only wish you were $400 away from a perfectly neutral grayscale 
using the 
> Epson driver! Unfortunately, what you are trying to do simply 
cannot be done 
> with the OEM driver - even if you bought $5000 worth of color 
management 
> gear. People have come "close" and whether that's good enough 
depends on 
> your particular needs. Some resort to "sepia" or other 
colorizations to mask 
> the grayscale shift.  I'd say you may try the Black only option - 
at least it won't 
> drift and shift across the scale.  Ultimately, you are not going to 
be as happy 
> as a mono hex set.
> 
> 
> Antonis