Digital BW, The Print

Hi Martin,
Well, I have a dozen 13x19 (12x16) prints on my living room wall that 
are fine in tungsten light. I spent endless hours creating a duotone 
curve that attempted to minimize the green in reflected daylight and 
purple of indoor lighting. Sometimes I think I get so minutely 
focused on attaining perfection that I don't realize that I have 
reached a reasonable solution....

The MIS and Lysonic inks banded badly in my 2000P. I used the Lyson 
cleaner carts etc but had banding. Swapped back to Epson stock, and 
printing was fine. I tried this a few times with equal results. And 
the Feb. editions of the tone balancing gave a very poor B to W 
gradient. 

Thanks for the reply. The 1280 looks like the current solution - I 
would have preferred to have the option of a wider carriage, but with 
my Oly E-10 as the photo source, unless I do multiframe panos, the 
13x19 paper is fine.

Best,
Alex

> 
> I have received a few 2000P prints in the various print exchanges 
and they
> were quite nice when viewed in the light they were intended for. 
Some of the
> ones I liked best had been balanced for daylight and were then 
purple in
> tungsten light. This actually was quite interesting and not too 
different
> from some 19th century prints I have seen.
> 
> In the exchanges I have gotten a couple of prints using the 
original MIS
> quad inks and I have to say I was very surprised after all the 
stories I
> have read. The particular print I have in mind was a portrait and 
of top
> quality. I think that may be a case that with dogged persistence 
just about
> anything can be used if you are willing to put in the time and 
suffer the
> aggravation.
> >