Digital BW, The Print

Holy Cow, you'd think Cone would have gotten his inks right by now. How
many times has he had faulty inks? 5? 6?  Wonder if he does any real
world tests.

Sheesh!

Jerry

Robert Morrison wrote:
> 
> I'm confirming Antonis's result.  I have had exactly the same result now
> with the Selenium Piezotones.  I have a large print on EAM that was printed
> one month ago.  For the last 5 days it was in a room that receives
> intermittent strong day light...probably about 2 hours a day.  After 5 days
> it shows the bad crossover warming/fading that Antonis describes below.
> Prints made at the same time that were stored in the dark do not show this.
> This experience eliminates the Piezotone black for me.
> 
> Robert
> 
> in a room thOn 9/8/02 9:25 AM, "antonisphoto" <antonisphoto@...>
> wrote:
> 
> > I have a series of large prints on EAM made with the new Warm-Tone
> > Piezotones on a 7000 using ImagePrint 4.  They were printed 2 months ago,
> > and since they were meant as proofs,  I clipped them up on the walls
> > unframed. The room they have been hanging gets no direct sun but has
> > plenty of daylight from a southern window.
> >
> > I was gone for a few weeks and when I returned a few days ago I noticed to
> > my great dismay that the black and near-black areas had turned brown. Since
> > that is also a lighter value than the original black, these areas now appear
> > "solarized" or "bronzed out". IOW, the brown appears within a clear contour
> > from the surrounding image which is not affected.
> >
> > I am guessing these are the areas where the black ink kicks in. So, I have
> > many questions and theories, but no answers. Maybe we can compare notes?
> >
> > - Is this happening only on Epson Archival Matte (and the recently renamed
> > version)? Any other papers? Does it happen behind glass?
> >
> > - Is this what Paul Roark predicted about PT black - except this happened in
> > (a short) real time and real world  conditions rather than a fader? Pretty
> > scary.
> >
> > - If the above is a paper-wide symptom, InkjetMall needs to recall the black
> > PT
> > ink (which is common to all sets) and refund or replace with a known stable
> > ink such as MIS.
> >
> > - Since InkjetMall no longer supports their inks with profiles and software,
> > we
> > need to alert Colorbyte and R9 to the need for strange new combinations of
> > inks such as PT grays with MIS FS black or MIS DD. I realize this is already
> > an old idea on this list, but I thought it applied to cases that need
> > "extreme"
> > archival stability. I didn't think the Piezotones wouldn't even last 2
> > months!!
> > And to think they were originally hyped up as pure pigment!
> >
> > Any thoughts?
> >
> >
> > Antonis
> >
> >
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