Digital BW, The Print

I also agree with the paper choice issue. I'm having a very nice time 
printing on Epson Premium Glossy...great blacks and really crisp.

The lure of LSG is always the ability to create various tones, but I 
use it solely because it is a long life (not archival...let's not 
start that)inkset that makes outstanding glossy prints. There is no 
question to me that as you change the toning, you also start getting 
different results in other ways as well. Everyone has a different 
view of neutral, but once you find a tone you like, I suggest you 
work with the inkset using only that setting on a variety of papers 
and types of images...until you are comfortable. 

In my opinion the variable inkset suffers from too many choices...and 
each one has consequences that make comparisons (and therefore 
learning) very difficult, if not impossible.

If you go to inkjetart.com you will find a set of test print images 
you can download and I would suggest you print them with LSG at the 
same setting on all of your favorite papers...you'll be amazed at the 
differences you will see.

Cheers,

Tom O'Connell

TomOC@...
www.thomasoconnell.com



--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., Keith Cooper 
<yahoogroups@n...> wrote:
> 
> Hello
> 
> I'd echo the comments about paper choice and metamerism. A Lyson 
dealer here
> in the UK sent me a sample set of all of their papers to test, so I 
added
> the odd few sheets of other stuff I had laying around and wandered 
about my
> house with a collection of small prints. With the range of lighting 
(north
> skylight/south sun/fluorescent/various tungsten) I found that the 
Lyson
> papers were indeed much better. I use quite a bit of their 265g 
premium
> lustre (aka Photo Satin) ... of course, having Lyson's profiles for 
the
> paper and my 1160 probably helped :-))
> 
> As for the Quad black inks, they were just too coloured in typical 
viewing
> conditions, and I hadn't got the nerve to tell customers that they 
should
> really only view the prints during the day...
> 
> 
> bye for now   
> 
> Keith Cooper