Digital BW, The Print

> Snippy snippy...

Todd, I don't think I see any red in the blacks!

When wet, the prints seem just a TAD lighter than when dry, but not much.

For printing the good stuff, I prefer to judge the prints in diffuse daylight. They don't look bad at night either, but how bright are your
tungsten lights? They have different temperatures. Low wattage lights are much warmer than, say, 200 watters, which is all I have in my
home. Fluorescent tubes have too many variations to even think about, your eyes will itch!

Paul just sent me another curve set, so we aren't in the final version yet. But I don't think the actual colors will change much from here
on out.

> Over all I think I like it just fine, just have to get in the flow...

I'm sure you'll love it when you get used to it.

Still wandering about the Epson Archival paper. I've never seen a green on it. And don't most people who DO see a green shift use piezo
inks? Maybe it's the paper AND the ink together that cause it. Or maybe its just a bad batch of ink. Or Gawd help us all, the ozone turns
pigments green and dyes orange? I don't even want to think about it. (No ozone problems in N. Dakota).

The blacks on the Epson Archival are still pretty impressive for the low cost of this paper. And with Paul's cool curve, It didn't shift in
nearly 3 months in a South window.  The blue in the ink probably prevented it from noticeably shifting towards brown.

>
> Oh, one thing about color. With both the VT and VP3, I find a print that
> looks neutral in tungsten will be rather cool in daylight. I don't know if
> this is metamerism.

You know, most magazine ads don't look identical in different lighting sources either. Neither do my acrylic paintings, but they are so
close, I just gotta ask, who cares? BOY we're picking nits here.  In warm light, I just think it's natural to see colors just a hair warmer.



> as it follows the natural color of the light sources,
> but it does make critical judgements about color difficult. You like your
> prints cooler than I do, so I'll probably stay one curve warmer than you do.
> Do you find the MIS inks dry down cooler than they look when fresh?

Not cooler, but a tiny bit darker, with more tonal separation in the shadows.

Remember you can also move the epson slider to get a tone BETWEEN the curves!

Jerry