Digital BW, The Print

If I take - which I have done - a print for a collection of prints I 
have by Howard Bond, a fairly reasonable photographer and a good 
printer, and view them in strong sunlight, then tungsten light, then 
warm florescent light, then cold florescent light, then open shade 
"skylight," I am going to have a different color cast on the prints 
since the light that is being reflected off of them is different. No 
passive reflective medium can reflect neutral gray independent of the 
light source. The "color shift" (which it is not really shifting any 
colors - it's only reflecting what is incident on it ) may be subtle but 
it will be there. Even Ansal Adams notes this in "The Print" where he 
states, "I consider the best gallery illumination a mixture of daylight 
and tungsten lighting. Prints that are displayed under tungsten light 
will appear warmer in tone than under daylight illumination, say a north 
skylight. Daylight alone is often too "cold" for optimum display 
effects."  The "shift" may or may not be more pronounced in the 2200, 
but it's there in all black and white media.

My viewing area is a mixture of open skylight with reflections off 
cypress walls and halogen track lighting. Cypress wood imparts a warm 
tone to the light in the house as it does to any reflected light off the 
track lighting.  I personally prefer prints on the cool side - I do not 
like the to coin a term from Ansal Adams "olive green" cast of warm tone 
photographs. That's why all my silver prints are toned pretty heavily in 
selenium toner. My question is can the 2200 be used to produce what ever 
type as far as warmth or coolness of  B and W prints I would like or do 
I need to go the 1280 route with an MIS hextone setup?

Any thoughts on this. I don't want to make a 600 dollar mistake which is 
about what either path will cost.

Truman

scho_2000 wrote:

> > Two issues, really: slight metamerism in the new "metamerism-free" 
> inks,
> and
> > slight crossovers in the new "perfect profiles". We all knew 
> perfection was a
> > bit much to ask, the question now is how acceptable the real world 
> results
> > are to individual users.
> >
> > C. David Tobie
> > Design Cooperative
> > CDTobie@d...
> Probably quite acceptable for the casual BW printer and not quite 
> acceptable
> for the purist.  I compared a favorite image today printed on both the 
> 2200 and
> my 1270 with MIS VM.  The VM neutral/warm is probably the closest
> comparison for overall tone.  Side by side I prefer the VM print 
> because of the
> deeper blacks, but I still have to wait to get my matte black ink for 
> the 2200 for
> another comparison.