Digital BW, The Print

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One key question you don't mention what you will be doing with the final
prints. Are they just for short term use? Archival purposes? If archival
then you need to stay with the pigmented inks and avoid the dye based sets.

Actually Piezo would be the easiest for you to set up and use if not the
cheapest.

What hue do you want in the final prints? Cool, warm, neutral, sepia? This
will also determine ink set recommendations.

Stick with Epson simply because all of the aftermarket ink sets are
developed around certain models of Epson printers. If you go with Canon you
will find little support for grayscale printing.

You might simply want to wait until the Epson 2200 comes out. It is supposed
to be a big improvement over the 2000P and might solve your problems.
Haven't seen any output so I can't say for sure.

Martin Wesley
http://www.borderless-photos.de/guests.html



----- Original Message -----
From: "mrn8tural" <mrn8tural@...>
To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Monday, July 01, 2002 8:23 AM
Subject: [Digital BW] Seeking Help/Info on BW with Inkjet


> Hi, I'm a newbie here. Found this site as a result of my frustration
> with getting decent ouput from Inkjet printers from grayscale
> files.
>
> I'm involved in the restoration of about 400 medium (actually  an
> odd size) scans of glass plate negatives taken in the middle
> east circa 1927 (see www.epicvisions.org).
>
> For our smaller output we purchased an Epson 2000p. As you
> can imagine, the results (to put it mildly) suck. The tonal quality
> is awful unless you set the printer to black ink only, but then there
> is an unacceptable pattern overlaid on the image. Epson claims
> to not support printing photos with black ink only.  I have tried
> tweaking just about every setting imaginable, and nothing is of
> the quality I would sell.  The only decent images I get are when I
> convert to duotone and then print with the photo-enhance Sepia
> setting -- but then I am unable to tweak that setting to get the
> precise toning I'm looking for.
>
> Yes, I know about Piezo, but I'm not ready to spend another $900
> on some technology I have to install myself (I am not very goo
> with stuff like that) and have not see any results from live.
>
> What I am trying to find, and can't seem to is a printer with decent
> output which can use *unmodified* some sort of third party
> grayscale or sepia ink set (such as from Luminos, Lyson, or
> someone else I haven't heard of yet). That new Canon 9000
> looks great, but I haven't seen any ink sets available for it.
>
> Am I on a wild goose chase here?  Can someone point me in
> the right direction........
>
> By the way. I was hesitant to join this group because every other
> time I've joined a Yahoo group resulted in a ton of SPAM.  Any
> clues on how to avoid this?
>