Digital BW, The Print

Hi Bill,

I've been using the Generations/MIS archival color pigments for a couple
years now. I'm very happy with them. It's just that I just ordered
another 1280 and am going to stick with the epson inks for that printer
for a while. i have the MIS archival color inks in the 1160 now, with
generations black. Wonderful quality.  But I figure the 1280's 26 year
life will do fine for my color needs. If I ever convert it to black inks
only, I'll get another nomorecarts CIS system and go that way in the
1280. But first, I'm going to see how high the quality of black and
white prints are with it with a profile for epson inks.

In the past 5 years, I've had 3 CIS systems and 3 printers die on me. I
don't know if there is a connection or not. My current 1160 is 3 years
old, and still going just fine.

Bill Agee wrote:
> 
> Jerry,
> 
> this isn't quite on your topic of Epson dye inks, but I can tell you
> that I am stoked by the results of using Hahnem\ufffdhle Photo Rag 308 and
> the MIS Archival pigment inks with the substitution of extended
> yellow in their standard color inkset.  Blacks are wonderful, colors
> match the screen...This combination I use for my fine art printing.
> Your right, it is expensive, however I expect that it is easily in
> excess of 100 years under glass on the wall with no direct sunlight.
> The EHM is fine for the everyday snapshots to friends printing...and
> much more cost effective...and I might add should last as long as
> conventional color prints.
> 
> I got the curves for the ink/paper combo by using my EyeOne Spectro.
> 
> Bill
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