Digital BW, The Print

I have a C80 I use for general printing. I also ran a few photos off with 
it just to see what it would do and they are not bad. I printed a tinted 
monochrome image (an RGB file). The prints came out more orange that what I 
saw on the screen and I didn't spend any time trying to tweak things. Two 
papers I used were Concord Rag and Somerset Photo Enhanced Velvet. The 
Somerset had darker blacks and a less orange tone than the Concord Rag. You 
can also do prints with black ink only to remove color casts. From a normal 
viewing distance, the prints look pretty good. Get up close with a loupe 
and you can see the dots. You can also see dots up close on color images 
(it is, after all, a 4-color printer). Epson Archival Matte also works well.

For a printer under $200, with separate carts and inks rated with a decent 
life, the C80 is nice little printer.

Jeff Greer

At 04:49 PM 08/20/2002 +0000, you wrote:
>Hi Digital BW folks,
>
>I'm Alfie Wang, a 25-yr. old street/documentary photog who has become
>a lot more interested in digital b and w. I used to be a die hard
>traditionalist and thought that digital shooting and printing was a
>joke. However, my attitude totally changed when I saw some grand
>prints by G. Plantigina (look at photovillage.com gallery for
>examples) and the Leica shots looked stunning when I went there in
>person. I was stunned. The range of tonality and shadow details were
>captured beatifully. ;)
>
>My head got a change instead. I've decided to try out inkjet printer
>of b and w prints. I plan to get a Epson C80 to start off some test
>prints and next year I will make the full change into B and W
>piezography using a Epson 1280 or 2200 (once Jon Cone gets the
>profiles for the printer 2200 model).
>
>I even decided to add digital shooting in addition to my shooting
>with Leicas and Nikons. A Nikon Coolpix 775 does a very reasonable
>job in my opinion and for me, the method of shooting isn't as
>important as the ability to print what you see or desire to see ;)...
>so I have a few questions here:
>
>1) Does anyone here use digital cameras and output into piezography
>(preferably Cone's inks I'm more interested in...)?
>
>2) Which outfits do you shoot with personally? I'm very close to
>thinking about using some Holga shots and doing piezography on toy
>cameras??? A joke perhaps but worthwhile shot...
>
>3) What perked your interested in digital black and white printing?
>
>4) What made you switch from silver halide based processes to digital?
>
>5) Why do die-hard traditionalists object to digital black and white
>prints? Tonality range? Shadow detail blockage? etc. etc.?
>
>Thanks for your help and I look forward to working and learning (more
>of that) from the intelligent folks here who are more experienced
>than I am!
>
>sincerely, Alfie
>
>
>
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