Digital BW, The Print

The highest quality prints I've gotten to date are with the 1280 printer
and MIS hextone inks, with the MIS black replaced by Generations
"enhanced black". There are NO dots, anywhere in the print. You CAN get
great black and whites from the MIS Archival Color inks, IF you have a
professional profile made for them with the paper you want to use them
on. I use the Generations "Enhanced Black" even though the color inks
are MIS Archival inks. I use Paul Roark's cool and cold curves with the
Hextone inks and 1280 printer. 

Jerry



> 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
> 
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