Digital BW, The Print

> Jerry, thanks for your suggestions in such a timely manner.  The only
> question that I would like to ask again is why it seems that very
> few, if anyone, print b&w photos using the 6 color inkset.

Hi Dave,

Because most of them get color crossovers like reddish shadows and cyan highlights. This is a horrible combination in my opinion. Especially
prevalent with epson inks. With a great amount of tweaking, you can probably get a good print, such as color balancing the shadows, midtones
and highlights separately in photoshop.

But a prints inks fade at different times. One color will always shift before the other colors. And then you'll get a color shift you may
not want in your print. With the archival inks, this won't be a problem for many years. But it is just So much easier to print black and
whites with quad or hextone inks.

I got the 1280 because they solved the chip problem in that printer and a CIS is available that works, and it produces incredible quality
prints.]


> Out of
> close to 100 different images printed within the last 2 weeks on the
> 1280, only 4 had a bit of a crosscurve of magenta in the highlights
> with green in the shadow, on somerset enhanced paper.  There was no
> problem on the LPM or EAM.  I would like to try the longer lasting
> inks (MIS).  If I could even come close to how the prints look like
> with the epson dyes, I would be happy.

You should be able to come very close. Be sure you profile your monitor, and get a profile built for the MIS inkset and your favorite paper.

Jerry